The reactions so far over the death of the popular Zimbabwean Lion is massive. This is the first of its kind since the killing of the black Rhino early this year. On social networks like Facebook and twitter, debate on the event is increasing by the second. One wonders if human are gradually evolving into something strange. The value placed on animals are much higher than that on human. Meanwhile wars and poverty are ravaging many countries and less attention is channeled towards them.
US talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel gives an emotional response to the death
of Cecil the lion, a cherished creature at Zimbabwe's Hwange national
park. The host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! says he was saddened to hear the
lion was killed by an American hunter earlier this month. Kimmel becomes
visibly upset while speaking about the incident, and later prompts
viewers to donate to a wildlife research unit
On Irish Examiner, the headline read thus " The Isles of Scilly police give best reaction to Cecil the lion’s death". It reports that there’s been a lot of reaction to the killing of Cecil the lion and
the lads from the illustrious police force on the Isles of Scilly have
given the best take on it. The officers, in a clever way of tackling the recent killing of Cecil and the recent anger against seagulls, have named the herring gulls that live around the Scilly Isles.
Why?
To protect them from hunters, as they believe that anyone that kills
an animal which has been named by people will become a "social pariah" -
much like American dentist Walter Palmer.
They said on their Facebook page: "If the news has taught us anything
this week it's don't hunt animals with names unless you desire to be a
social pariah.
"In light of this and the recent vilification of Herring Gulls, I have taken to naming all our avian friends around Scilly.
"I feel it adds an element of anthropomorphic mischief to the debate around our cohabitation with these marvellous animals."
On Facebook....
"We are young species. We have not yet learned to flap our wings together. We are still learning in who and what we value. I call this generational evolution. We could learn a lot from our elders...our animal, non human cousins. We have never truly loved one another outside of our own comfort zone...we are still learning" - Marianne Van der Wel
"As much as i want to agree and share your vision of hope above, in the last 250,000 or so of human history, and more recently in each of the 3000 years of human history, there has been unprecendented violence and murder of hundreds of thousands of human beings by fellow human beings. Hope for humanity in these dire and vicious circumstances is very bleak, grim and lugubrious" - Dayo Fadina
"In a world where police murdered an innocent trader in Aba while in pursuit of Cannabis smokers same day a lion was killed, which begs the question, since when did weed smoking become a crime befitting of use of guns during arrests; and of course when these youths evade arrests, these trigger-happy maniacs shoot randomly at people and instead what made the news- both local and int'l like CNN, Al Jazeera, etc, is the killing of a lion"- Okorie Uche
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