<story><title>In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipgap98</author><text>If people are hitting the paywall the gist of the article is that lions are dangerous animals. People living in rural village are terrorized by lions and it has a serious impact on their way of life. Zimbabweans have a lot of respect for wild animals but aren&amp;#x27;t opposed to them being hunted. America once again stirred up a social media frenzy when they don&amp;#x27;t understand the issue at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonknee</author><text>&amp;gt; America once again stirred up a social media frenzy when they don&amp;#x27;t understand the issue at all.&lt;p&gt;Except that America stirred up this issue only because it was done by a rich American. Zimbabwe aided by claiming it was an illegal poaching, arresting the guides and then asking America to arrest and extradite Walter Palmer.&lt;p&gt;Lions are scary when they aren&amp;#x27;t in a national park and being monitored by research scientists, but that&amp;#x27;s not what happened. This would be like a foreign tourist luring a wolf out of Yellowstone and then killing it outside of the park boundaries. It&amp;#x27;s straight up illegal poaching.</text></comment>
<story><title>In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipgap98</author><text>If people are hitting the paywall the gist of the article is that lions are dangerous animals. People living in rural village are terrorized by lions and it has a serious impact on their way of life. Zimbabweans have a lot of respect for wild animals but aren&amp;#x27;t opposed to them being hunted. America once again stirred up a social media frenzy when they don&amp;#x27;t understand the issue at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I take issue with the thought of conservation only being necessary for cute, cuddly animals. There are significant benefits of maintaining biodiversity in the various biomes.</text></comment>