Why Cecil Still Matters

I wrote this in 2015. So much has changed since then, but some things have stayed the same. I am reposting this because there has just been another Cecil, a lion named Mopane. Mopane was killed almost exactly the same way. Lured out of the park and killed by an American hunter with a bow and arrow. This has to stop.

Photo Credit Luke Tanis, Unsplash

Why can’t I let it go? It was one dentist and one lion, very far away and this incident happened almost…