Moved by the senseless killing of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe?Watch out for those would turn your tears into money for themselves!
Goldgenie, a UK company known for expensive luxury phones, has created a custom gold plated “Cecil the Lion HTC One”. It’s a $2,500 smartphone. BEWARE!!!!! Goldgenie says it will send “some” not “all” of the proceeds to Hwange National Park, home of Cecil for the last part of the 13-year-old lion’s lifetime.
Ty Warner has introduced a forth coming Cecil the Lion Beanie Baby.
GREAT NEWS!
100% of profits from the original sale of these TY beanies will go to WildCRU, the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit of University of Oxford in Oxford England, which is the group that had placed a GPS tracker on the neck of Cecil, and had been following the lion’s movements for years. Bravo!
Do you want to donate to WildCRU?
Here is the link. Don’t forget to select WildCRU in the drop down menu.
https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/UXF/onlinegiving/showGivingForm.jsp?form_id=382
Aaron Blaise, a former Disney animator who worked on great films like Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, has created a beautiful digital image to pay homage to Cecil the lion. He is NOT profiting from his artwork and is encouraging others to donate to WildCRU.
Check out this time-lapse video detailing its creation.
Blaise wrote on his website: “When I heard the news about Cecil, I got inspired to create a tribute image.”
Well done sir! (reaching for a tissue now)
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