People All Over the World Have Risen Up to Condemn a Single Man Peter Gelling - GlobalPost
go to original July 29, 2015

Walter James Palmer (L), an American dentist from Minnesota, has been identified as the hunter who killed Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe. The online response has forced Palmer, who has at least 43 kills to his name, to take down his website and the Facebook page for his practice. (AJ+)

People all over the world have risen up to condemn a single man. The internet is going ballistic.

...It's an American dentist and father of two from Bloomington, Minnesota. Walter Palmer is his name. So what did he do? He allegedly paid tens of thousands of dollars to a company that helped him lure a beloved — and protected — lion beyond the confines of a national park in Zimbabwe so he could legally hunt and kill it. He shot it with a bow and arrow. The lion, nicknamed Cecil by locals, reportedly died some 40 hours later.

Palmer is a big game hunter. Killing record-breakingly large animals for sport is his passion in life. The New York Times even did a story about him in 2009. So, proudly, Palmer posed with the lion's corpse and shared the photo on his social media. In a single day, the photo was shared thousands upon thousands of times across the world, and not for the reasons Palmer had hoped.

Justified or not, the public shaming has been intense. Every detail of this man's life has been laid bare: his wife's name, his business, his kids, his home. Everything. He must be feeling stalked, hunted even. But while it will be hard to generate much sympathy for Palmer, the blame can easily be shared around - illegal hunting and poaching is a massive problem throughout Africa.

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