Morally despicable

The relentless, merciless and gratuitous slaughter of rhinos and elephants in derelict countries like Zimbabwe, South Africa and Kenya continues. These nations have many valiant defenders of wildlife, but they are outnumbered by corrupt and violently greedy criminals and even governmental officials. To make matters worse, brazen poachers recently slaughtered a rhino in a compassionate French zoo and malevolently "sawed off" its horns. This is proof that the international community has direly failed to safeguard these iconic species and to rightfully deter and punish their heinous killers. Mankind's monstrous and lethal cruelty to the animal kingdom is perpetuating and intensifying in the most egregious manner imaginable. This is morally despicable.

Brien Comerford

Glenview