Update on “Sustainable Wildlife”

Last spring, many of us petitioned Delta Airlines, as the major air transportation provider between Africa and the US, to refuse to ship the carcasses of lions, elephants, rhinoceros, tigers, etc., as a deterrent to those, tragically born without consciences, who would shoot the few remaining members of these species and take their corpses back home to stuff and mount as trophies.

The good news: we won.  Better said: Delta, regardless of the degree to which public pressure was a factor, did the right thing and has set in place new policy to the effect that it will not accept such cargo.

Better news: They’re being sued by the hunting group who auctioned away the life of a rare, African black rhino for $350,000.  How can this be good news?  It elevates the story into the consciousness of the tiny fraction of the Earth’s population that missed my earlier blog post on the subject (kidding).

Even better news: people are going to eventually read about the disposition of this case.  How likely is it that this “hunting group” is going to prevail against Delta Airlines and the zillions of people who supported them in this campaign for decency?

We live in a world filled with suffering.  How cool it is to see some of it assuaged.