here is the clip from Kimmel re cecil the lion

[CTyankee]

[Chiquitita]

1. Great idea Here's the link to the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in Oxford.

http://www.wildcru.org

[Jim__]

2. Palmer has previously been accused of sexual harassment.

Which goes to Kimmel's point about him not being able to get an erection.

See fact #4 in the attached story. An excerpt:

Dr. Walter Palmer runs the River Bluff Dental practice in Bloomington, Minnesota.

He was settled sexual harassment allegations by a former employee who was also a patient, in 2009, according to documents from the Minnesota Board of Dentistry. He settled a corrective action with the board and his insurer paid $127,500 to his accuser.

The woman said “she was subjected to ongoing and unwelcome sexual harassment by (Palmer) including, but not limited to, verbal comments and physical conduct involving her breasts, buttocks, and genitalia.”

She said she told Palmer and her supervisor that she wanted his behavior to stop, but he “failed to cease his harassing conduct.” She also said “she believed (Palmer) terminated her employment in retaliation for reporting the conduct.”

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[Chiquitita]

3. To donate to the WILDCRU

Donations can be made at https://www.campaign.ox.ac.uk/wildcru

From their site:

“The modern world is a hostile place for large carnivores like lions. It will take all our ingenuity and determination to secure their conservation alongside the development of local communities. Conservation solutions depend on the best possible science, for the benefit of wildlife and local people, and the WildCRU’s work is dedicated to undertaking that science and working with policy-makers to implement it. We desperately need support – millions of people have been affected by Cecil’s death – and by the plight of lions in general – and imagine they are powerless at preventing further lion decline. However, those millions can make an immediate and real difference – if each of them made a pledge of support to the WildCRU it would revolutionise our work for conservation, and hugely improve the long-term outlook for lions both in Zimbabwe and elsewhere. That would be a worth memorial to a lion as magnificent as Cecil, who has provided so much to WildCRU and the world”. http://www.wildcru.org

[CTyankee]

4. thank you. I was wondering where to send a contribution...

[Chiquitita]

5. I wouldn't have looked for it if you hadn't

posted the video. Thanks.

[swilton]

6. bookmarked

for Christmas giving

More from the WildCRU website:

At the WildCRU, in the Recanati-Kaplan Centre at Oxford, we are studying lions in various parts of Africa to uncover the science that will inform and underpin their conservation. This is urgent, because lion numbers are precariously low, estimated at fewer than 30,000 across the continent and we have evidence that there are actually fewer. We have worked on the lions of Hwange National Park, with the support and collaboration of the excellent Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority. Our goal is to understand the threats that lions face, and to use cutting-edge science to develop solutions to those threats. Our work is scientific, we have satellite-tracked the movements of over a hundred lions and monitored every detail of the lives of more than 500 individuals, but WildCRU’s work is also highly practical – we run a courageous anti-poaching team, a local conservation theatre group, and education campaign that gets information into every school in the district, and we work with local farmers to help them live alongside lions and improve their livelihoods.

[CTyankee]

7. excellent idea! I only give donations now to adults in the family.

Usually, it is the CT Food Bank but I'll add this one. Plenty of people must feel helpless in their rage over this atrocity.

[Gothmog]

8. Great clip

[MissDeeds]

9. Thanks so much for this, CTyankee

Kimmel really hit it out of the ballpark with that rant. So glad he went off on the guy.



K&R

[Lobo27]

10. Any word on his six cubs?

Will they be saved by the park, or will the be allowed to be taken out by the new pride lion..... FUCK FUCK

[CTyankee]

11. I know it sounds harsh, but will they survive anyway?

I really don't know if this is just nature at work or whether it is fine to take the cubs from their mothers...just wondering...

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. K & R

Jimmy choked up.

[zebonaut]

13. To all the hunters out there. (And in French; no less)

[tclambert]

14. The guy killed a rhino? How could that be allowed?

Isn't that an endangered species?