Joshua Meservey / @JMeservey / August 03, 2015
Lost in the outrage over the death of Cecil the Lion is the plight of the people of Zimbabwe and the fact that big game hunting actually helps Africa.
On July 1, a lion known as Cecil, who was popular with safari-goers in Zimbabwe, was killed by a hunter after being lured out of a national park.
The story made newspapers worldwide, and the internet convulsed in outrage. The hashtag #CecilTheLion trended for two days on Twitter. Online warriors flooded the Yelp page of hunter Walter Palmer’s dentistry practice with negative reviews. A makeshift shrine to Cecil popped up at Palmer’s office.
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