Ithaca,
It all depends if you accept humans as part of nature or not. Too often these days nature is portrayed as human-free, and a qualitative premium placed on the development of nature that happens in the absence of people. This attitude has led to the forceful removal of indigenous people from some African "parks" so that nature could re-establish itself.
The counter argument is that people's needs lead to more rather than less biodiversity. In Europe there is great lament at the loss of the human dependent biodiversity as farms are abandoned, especially in eastern Europe.
In hunting terms this is evident in the demise of chukars where marginal arable land is no longer planted with cereals, or where small fields had their natural hedges removed to favor efficiency in the use of machinery and grey partridge cover was lost.
There is also the lunatic fringe who favor anything that negatively impacts hunting, and actively promote the protection of all predators, no matter how high the numbers.
