The death of a single elephant – or lion,such as Cecil – is unhappy. But our anger should really be aimed at the species-threatening scale of the illegal wildlife trade effect we only care about “charismatic megafauna” being killed if the animal in question has a name or is the biggest of its kind?You’d be forgiven for thinking so, looking at the outrage over the shooting of Cecil the lion and the death final week of what is believed to be one of Africa’s largest elephants, and as revealed today. Both were killed in Zimbabwe,by trophy hunters. Both hold generated a enormous amount of media coverage.
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Source: theguardian.com