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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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Although lip service was paid to the fact that lions are endangered and a lion was poached, the language of anger was the language of animals rights. I’ve written before at length about how conservation and animal rights , while often drawing on mutual a reverence of nature, are different beasts. To a point.

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Should is not a Solution

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In the past I have attributed some of this conflict to differences between the conservation mindset and that of animal rights/animal welfare. Most of the people debating this issue are for conservation, they are against wild areas being destroyed and wild species being threatened with extinction.

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We Should Kill More Lions

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The interests of those working for conservation and those working for animal rights and animal welfare don’t always perfectly align like you might think they do. Like with animal rights, the goals of conservation and hunting are not quite lined up, but they can be quite similar. Shoot something!

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