[True Story?] Cecil lion's brother is also illegally killed in Zimbabwe

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Baalzamon said:
The point of this story has nothing to do with a lion. Or poaching for that matter. Nobody would have cared if some poor guy from France killed Cecil. It is a story because a wealthy man from the US did it. Pepole have been saying poaching is an issue for years and years yet nobody cared until now?

I doubt wealth had much to do with it starting to gain traction on social media, this isn't the first time a wealthy man from the US has gone trophy hunting, not at all unfortunately. The deal is, a man from the US (making this feel close to home) bribed officials to let him illegally hunt a loin, and the loin just so happened to be an icon of Hwange National Park. I believe this is the first time that chain of events has occurred, it's a perfect story for social media.

Anyway I don't see how what your trying to say changes anything, does it matter where the person comes from and his wealth status as long as it helps cause some changes? I personally don't believe so. Does it suck it took so long for people to acknowledge this on a large scale? Sure does, I've long been promoting this cause and trying to do what little I can to help end poaching and unethical hunting and I can't stand how little people seem to care. To see people finally at least pretend to care about something other than whether a dress is this color or that color is great.