Eureka Street Podcasts
Celebrity fury not enough to tame lion killers
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
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Synopsis
The epidemic of African wildlife poaching returned to the headlines this week with news that an American hunter had killed a much-loved lion, Cecil, in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park. Such 'leisure activities' speak to a base instinct to control, brutalise and defeat. Yet the outpouring of fury at Cecil's killer by celebrities and the public on social media platforms feels somewhat hypocritical and opportunistic.