I’ll be brief and less than objective. This is about the sad, cruel, unconscionably unnecessary death of Cecil the lion at the hand (and bow and arrow and, ultimately, rifle) of that American dentist. And good for Delta Airlines for no longer shipping hunting “trophies.”
This is not about witting or unwitting violations of big-game rules or where this incident and poaching fits in the hierarchy of tribulations besetting Zimbabwe. This is about orchestrated, choreographed killing of animals for trophy “sport.” That’s oxymoronic. That’s obscene. And that should be unworthy of human beings–from Teddy Roosevelt to Walter Palmer.