How is Cecil's story not important? It's the perfect storm of events that lead to finally resulting in the public to take notice about the corruption, and continued systematic termination and general lack of care for the wildlife currently gravely endangered and on the verge of extinction by poaching for money and hunting for sport. Not to mention the large scale loss of wild habitat and the continued squabbles between wild animals and new residents.
The story not once made any reference to being more important than other events and or world issues. The public is reacting with rage and anger because for the last 100+ years we have been trying to stop this shit from happening and yet some rich dentist from the US gets caught red handed, literally with blood on his hands. Having said that, he's not some first timer getting excited about the hunt, hes a professional big game hunter that took down other big animals in his quest to have the worlds coolest man cave. So I'm sorry, but it's hard to believe that he didn't realize what they were doing was illegal. Strapping a piece of meat to the back bumper of a Jeep? For fuck's sake, common! I'm sure at one point he asked why the hell they need to do this, its NOT his first time. He then had 40 hours while the animal was suffering to stop the hunt and report those actions, what does he do instead? Kills the lion, takes it's head, while his "totally legal" team tries to destroy the GPS collar.
I think that once we start rating stories on the matter of importance and arguing about their right to enter the public eye we are no better than one-upping each other and turning this into a world wide dick measuring contest (sorry for being vulgar) for journalists and their critics.
Thank you! The tone of the article is grating. Yes, there are all sorts of bad things in the world that are not getting the level of attention that some folks, including myself, think is warranted. Does that mean we should all give the lion killer a pass? Because this particular event doesn't meet their burden of proof of being worth their attention?
I can only hope Cecil's death will fuel some change and ultimately spare lives of other endangered animals. That's the only good thing that can come out of this, and articles like "shut up about it already" try to take that away too.
OK, wait a minute, lets back up a little.
How is Cecil's story not important? It's the perfect storm of events that lead to finally resulting in the public to take notice about the corruption, and continued systematic termination and general lack of care for the wildlife currently gravely endangered and on the verge of extinction by poaching for money and hunting for sport. Not to mention the large scale loss of wild habitat and the continued squabbles between wild animals and new residents.
The story not once made any reference to being more important than other events and or world issues. The public is reacting with rage and anger because for the last 100+ years we have been trying to stop this shit from happening and yet some rich dentist from the US gets caught red handed, literally with blood on his hands. Having said that, he's not some first timer getting excited about the hunt, hes a professional big game hunter that took down other big animals in his quest to have the worlds coolest man cave. So I'm sorry, but it's hard to believe that he didn't realize what they were doing was illegal. Strapping a piece of meat to the back bumper of a Jeep? For fuck's sake, common! I'm sure at one point he asked why the hell they need to do this, its NOT his first time. He then had 40 hours while the animal was suffering to stop the hunt and report those actions, what does he do instead? Kills the lion, takes it's head, while his "totally legal" team tries to destroy the GPS collar.
I think that once we start rating stories on the matter of importance and arguing about their right to enter the public eye we are no better than one-upping each other and turning this into a world wide dick measuring contest (sorry for being vulgar) for journalists and their critics.
Thank you! The tone of the article is grating. Yes, there are all sorts of bad things in the world that are not getting the level of attention that some folks, including myself, think is warranted. Does that mean we should all give the lion killer a pass? Because this particular event doesn't meet their burden of proof of being worth their attention?
I can only hope Cecil's death will fuel some change and ultimately spare lives of other endangered animals. That's the only good thing that can come out of this, and articles like "shut up about it already" try to take that away too.