I guess all the head banging in the world will not get a point across for those that refuse to understand what some of us have noticed. The hairy people are not animals. You can't herd them, you can't cage them, you can't trap them, you can't find them, you can't convince them, you can't have them do what the government wants them to do.
So why are we wasting our time? They don't need protection but what they do need is our understanding and empathy. What if this was you? I know I wouldn't be happy about it. Apes and monkeys don't follow people home or to their place of work and they certainly don't talk (however primative that talk seems to be).
Just be happy they exist and hope for a friendship to develop. The government really doesn't care to set aside millions of acres for them and logging companies just wish they would go away. I used to think that they needed protection but not at all now.