Local examples are "Kermode" Black bears and Alaskan "Glacial" bears.
These are just black bears with a predominant genetic quirk.
That was enough to end the hunting of them.
In Ontario, the "Algonquin" wolf, another ridiculously labeled "unique population" has ended the hunting of trapping of All wolves and coyotes over a vast area, far beyond the known range of the genetic *******s.