Paved part of paradise, put up a parking lot to see the rest

My viewpoint on the context of the killing of Cecil the Lion, that the loss to the incomes of the people of Hwange, to science and to biodiversity and my criticism of the journalist who was primarily responsible for the story to Reuters, has been slammed as patronising and contemptuous of the real views of Zimbabweans - that the people of the country are surprised at being told how famous a lion was and how they have bigger fish to fry than conservation and safaris.  While I take issue with the notion that there is a single, unified, Rousseauian Zimbabwean viewpoint (is there a single British viewpoint, a single French, a single American?) and still believe that the article was poorly constructed agitprop rather than honest reporting, I may have not have been as forensic as maybe I should have been, to avoid charges of seeing things from a western 'privileged' perspective.
It was Joni Mitchell in Big Yellow Taxi bewailing the fact that 'they paved paradise, put up a parking lot'. This hippy idealism would also be seen as hailing from a western privileged background and thus the critique that I have been under thus paints Zimbabweans who do not hail from Hwange national park in the role of Alan Partridge, baldly dismissing the heart of the song as "a measure that would actually have alleviated congestion on the outskirts of paradise."   To be in the role of Partridge is unenviable but I think it is pertinent.  Of course, Zimbabwe shouldn't just be kept for conservation and safaris and indeed not need to revert to its former reputation as the breadbasket of southern Africa - that would be patronising.  I believe development can go hand-in-hand with conservation - they are not mutually exclusive.  Whether the government is competent and lacking in corruption to achieve that balance is another matter - for instance, Turkey, a country in an infinitely better state, has a government in hock to coal interests, planning an extra 80 constructions or expansions of coal-fired power plants as soon as possible, despite a Bloomberg New Energy Finance Report finding that expanding Turkey’s wind, solar and hydropower could meet its energy needs for the same cost as the coal rush, while keeping carbon emissions level.
On another note, the American hunter who killed Cecil had his second home in Florida (another million-dollar property in his portfolio - being a dentist is coining it) vandalised, with spray paints and pigs trotters in hot sauce.  It seems odd that in protesting the death of an animal, you should profane body parts of other, once living animals - presumably the pigs to whom the trotters belonged are not mounted on wheels.  This is when outrage tips into rage just so people can feel virtuous in their anger.  It does not matter that the pigs would have been slaughtered anyway - it is forgetting the fundamental principles the anonymous protesters are supposed to be upholding and is virtue signalling at its most crass.