History Main / EndangeredPest

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}} where Jewel once gave one of her human handlers a shiner, but it's implied she didn't face any repercussions on account if being an endangered bird.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' had the meerkat-warthog duo at odds with an obnoxious woodpecker (voiced by
Creator/GilbertGottfried) who's pecking is causing them headaches. They soon put him in a cage, to which he threatens to get them thrown in prison by showing them a card that classifies him as an endangered animal. Timon manages to use this against him by letting the woodpecker go...into a volcano.

** When exploring an abandoned building in the castle, Wolfram and Yuri discover giant monstrous eggs inhabiting the place, which they take to be monster eggs and nearly kill a few before they hatch. They turn out to be the rare and endangered Bearbees, and Wolfram insists they are now Yuri and Wolfram's children as they helped hatch them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E21TheFryingGame The Frying Game]]" starts off with the Simpsons stuck dealing with a "Screamapillar" early in the episode. It is a caterpillar that screams with great intensity despite its size, is sexually attracted to fire, and needs constant reassurance or it will die. Typical of Homer, he nearly kills the creature, which results in him and Marge doing community service.

* ''Film/{{Hook}}'' has Peter Banning's 5-billion-dollar real estate deal fall apart because the Sierra Club discovered a rare species of owl living on the land. [[TheGhost While the owl isn't seen]], it's described as a cozy blue owl about 10 inches tall and needs a 50-mile territory radius for mating purposes. Peter, who has been neglecting to spend time with his children for these business deals, ends up venting his anger upon his kids when they're making too much noise for him to comprehend the bad news.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In the episode [[Recap/SouthParkS3E4Jakovasaurus "Jakovasaurus"]], the town saves the eponymous species from extinction, however, the people of the town finds that they are an extremely annoying race that only Eric Cartman can stand.

* "Series/YesMinister": in "The Right to Know", a site of proposed development is blocked by [[AnimalWrongsGroup protestors]] who say it is a habitat for badgers (it is illegal to interfere with badger setts in the UK). Hacker's own [[GranolaGirl daughter Lucy]] sympathises with the badgers' plight and threatens to embarrass him politically by saying she will protest [[NakedPeopleAreFunny nude]]. However, it becomes doubtful how [[BlatantLies legitimate]] the site's status as a badger habitat really is, and [[BadassBureaucrat Humphrey]] manages to put Lucy off the idea of protesting by stating that the site is infested with [[YouDirtyRat rats]] instead.

Related to this is the WhiteElephant, in which a bothersome or simply unwanted gift is received. The Endangered Pest may bring the attention of an AnimalWrongsGroup.

One day the main characters find a pest in their home or workplace. However, just as one of them are about shoo it away or, if one of them aren't so merciful, exterminate it, an ObstructiveBureaucrat shows up telling them that the animal is {{endangered|Species}}, and thus killing it or even evicting it would constitute a crime.

Now the characters have to deal with an annoying and troublesome pest that they just can't get rid of, or even possibly have to actively ensure its safety and well being.

Related to this is the WhiteElephant, in a which a bothersome or simply unwanted gift is received. The Endangered Pest may bring the attention of an AnimalWrongsGroup.

* ''Film/{{Hook}}'' has Peter Banning's 5-billion-dollar real estate deal fall apart because the Sierra Club discovered a rare species of owl living on the land. [[TheGhost While the owl isn't seen]], it's described as a cozy blue owl about 10-inches tall and needs a 50-mile territory radius for mating purposes. Peter, who has been neglecting to spend time with his children for these business deals, ends up venting his anger upon his kids when they're making too much noise for him to comprehend the bad news.

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': {{Exploited}} in "[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS8E19FieldOfScreams Field of Screams]]". The football field where Al had the greatest experience of his life (four touchdowns in one game) is going to be bulldozed to build a ''very'' profitable and productive car factory. The field is saved when he nearly dies from being bitten repeatedly by "the rare and poisonous African Pang beetle", which have established a colony in the field after Kelly swiped them from the Chicago Institute of Bugs and Vermin and accidentally released one.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': A friendly outdoor barbecue is interrupted by an ugly giant bird landing in the middle of the table. The men try to shoo it away, and eventually (since it won't leave) they beat it to death. At the end of the sketch the camera zooms in on a newspaper in the background with the headline "Rare California Condor released back into the wild" with a photo which looks exactly like the bird they just got done killing.

* ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'': In "Summer", the local water company plans to turn the Dibley valley into a new reservoir to alleviate a drought. Owen hatches a plan to [[InvokedTrope invoke the trope]] to stop the town being destroyed for the reservoir by making his farm the sole home of a rare breed of livestock: a three-legged cow. To wit, "I've got a four-legged cow... and a sharp axe." [[spoiler:[[RuleOfFunny Inexplicably, this actually works]]: rather than bowing to the demonstrations led by Geraldine, the project is cancelled on grounds of [[BrickJoke the "discovery" of a one-legged chicken on Owen's farm]].]]
* "Series/YesMinister": in "The Right to Know" a site of proposed development is blocked by [[AnimalWrongsGroup protestors]] who say it is a habitat for badgers (it is illegal to interfere with badger setts in the UK). Hacker's own [[GranolaGirl daughter Lucy]] sympathises with the badgers' plight and threatens to embarrass him politically by saying she will protest [[NakedPeopleAreFunny nude]]. However, it becomes doubtful how [[BlatantLies legitimate]] the site's status as a badger habitat really is, and [[BadassBureaucrat Humphrey]] manages to put Lucy off the idea of protesting by stating that the site is infested with [[YouDirtyRat rats]] instead.

->'''Flight Nurse Pete Emerson:''' Sorry, did I wake you?
->'''Dr. Wayne Yates:''' No. Mopoke outside has a death wish.
->'''Pete:''' They're protected, aren't they?
->'''Wayne:''' Yeah, well, they're going to need the mafia.