Which is to say, this is fucking awful. Even on the terms of some coldly rational trophy-hunting-is-good-for-the-economies-of-poor-African-nations bullshit, this is a disaster. Cecil was a source of steady income for the local tourism industry, as tourists paid to stay in the nearby lodge and hired guides to find him…

You cannot be serious. What does “hunting” a lion - which isn’t considered ‘food’ - or a jaguar do for anyone other than the asshole pulling the trigger? Hunting for food and sustainability is one thing. Paying to go lure some animal out or, worse, shoot it behind a fence is not hunting and shouldn’t be considered…