Yeah I can see some Humans getting disturbed and inventing the equivalent of the canary resuscitation device. Alas, I can see other Humans getting numb to this and treating Kobolds as conveniently expendable.
Given that this is MY world, the former wins out.
You could have some of the latter, people apparently still like seeing themselves represented after all, and everyone else disliking them might then give them a clue XD