
Cecil Lives: Oakland Zoo Holds Lion Appreciation Day
Lion Appreciation Day is coming to the Oakland Zoo this Saturday–and thanks to Cecil the Lion, public interest is high.

Lion Appreciation Day is coming to the Oakland Zoo this Saturday–and thanks to Cecil the Lion, public interest is high.

Cecil the lion has been immortalized in a mural plastered across the outer wall of the 83 Degrees restaurant in Carlsbad, California.

An American dentist from Minnesota has allegedly killed an iconic Zimbabwean lion named Cecil with a bow and arrow in a trophy hunt. The Internet is outraged, perhaps rightly so. It is telling, however, that the deaths of thousands of ordinary Zimbabweans, and the starvation and displacement of millions, have failed to rouse anything like the same level of anger.

The most hated man in the world right now is a fiftysomething dentist from Minnesota called Walter Palmer. His practice in Bloomington, Minneapolis, has been deluged with hate mail; people are calling for him to be tortured, just like at