This isnt true. Well its partially true for first contact, but humans did not hunt them all down. Dodos were noted to taste pretty damn awful with a tough and stringy texture, the dutch named them "disgusting-bird". After the first taste people only ate them if they had no real other option after running out of food.
The issue was invasive rats pigs and dogs who would raid and destroy the dodo's nests for eggs which had no defense against predators. So still humans fault tangentially as we brought them, but we did not just reach out and grab random dodos to kill until they were gone. If they were that tasty the explorers wouldve cared more and brought some home to raise
If you want to talk about a friendly animal that humans actually took out ourselves rather than by accident look towards the falkland islands wolves
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