don't be so antibovine

>>5129245
Because wild cattle are endangered.

>>5130852
Chillingham cattle aren't wild though. They're ferals, like mustangs. They descend from a domesticated cattle breed. The UK just likes to pretend they didn't kill off all their actual wildlife.

Wild cattle would be species like gaur and banteng and tamaraw and the likely extinct kouprey.

>>5130959
mustangs are also protected for the same reason. They're naturalized. In the absence of native wildlife, a near-fit being introduced can serve the same ecological niche.
Beyond that, animals are only feral for the first generation, as after that they're just... wild animals.

>>5130959
>The UK just likes to pretend they didn't kill off all their actual wildlife.
I mean that's propably the point, if you already killed all of your megafauna you take what you can get and make sure you don't also exterminate the cattle that accidentally managed to take its place and established itself as the new wildlife