Cecil's Death Is Great for Rage, and Turns Out He's Also Great for Raising Cash

[damnedifIknow]

Cecil the lion’s death last month has resulted in donations of more than $780,000 to the team at Oxford University that was studying him.

Researchers at Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit said Tuesday the money would help them study lions not only in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, where Cecil lived, but also in adjoining countries.

* The outrage over the lion's death has also pressured airlines, including Delta and American, to announce they will stop transporting hunting trophies.

David McDonald, the head of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, said Tuesday the global response to Cecil’s story “transcends the tragic fate of one lion, and sends a signal that people care about conservation and want it to be reflected in how humanity lives alongside Nature in the 21st Century.”

The $780,000 in donations was aided by a $100,000 matching pledge from American philanthropists Tom and Daphne Kaplan."

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/cecil-supporters-donations/400436/

[pipoman]

1. Yep, there has been a lot of capitalizing on him

Yesterday ty said they were making a beanie baby of cecil. See I though ty was history in the 90's so they made me look...at poor cecils expense....

[Tanuki]

3. 100% of the profit from the Cecil Beanie Baby is being donated

"to the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit of the University of Oxford, the U.K. organization that has been conducting a long-term study of Cecil’s pride.

"Hopefully, this special Beanie Baby will raise awareness for animal conservation and give comfort to all saddened by the loss of Cecil," Ty Warner, founder and chairman of Ty Inc., said in a release announcing the initiative"


http://www.latimes.com/fashion/alltherage/la-ar-cecil-the-lion-beanie-baby-20150804-story.html

[pipoman]

8. Yeah...what ty is really hoping to raise awareness of is that ty still exists

Marketing...similar to pretending there is a shortage of this Beanie or that to drive sales was/is? a marketing ploy....don't get me wrong it isn't necessarily horrible, just a piece of it that is a bit unseemly...capitalism upon tragedy..

[TlalocW]

2. Maybe all this cash and awareness being raised

Will make it more difficult for poachers like that dentist to go on their stupid hunts. That would be the only good thing to come out of Cecil's death.

TlalocW

[NobodyHere]

4. So how do these donation amounts compare to victims of killer cops?

[shenmue]

5. Hi, concerned one!

Do you have trouble being interested in more than one thing at once?

[elias49]

6. Strange thing to say

Doesn't even make sense. A question was asked. And the question involves 2 things. Lighten up.

[840high]

7. ...^ that

[AngryAmish]

9. "It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money"

WC Fields