Saturday, August 01, 2015

Here's What the Guy Who Paid $50,000 to Kill Cecil the Lion Can Learn from the Guy Who Paid $350,000 to Kill a Black Rhino

Here's What the Guy Who Paid $50,000 to Kill Cecil the Lion Can Learn from the Guy Who Paid $350,000 to Kill a Black Rhino - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Done right, paid hunts for endangered animals can be a huge boon for conservation
Days after the news of the death of Cecil the Lion broke—and weeks after the actual hunt—the Internet is still in an uproar.
The dentist/hunter who killed the beloved big cat has shuttered his business in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and seems to have gone missing.
Everyone from Betty White to Zimbabwe's minister of the environment is pissed.
...But the problem isn't that Palmer paid a lot of money to hunt a lion, it's that he didn't pay enough money, he paid it to the wrong people, and he killed the wrong lion..."

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