It makes you wonder

Hardly a night goes by without someone asking for £3 a month to keep some endangered animal alive – a creature which is about to go extinct in the wild. But not extinct. It’s now fashionable for rich young men in the Gulf states to own a lion or a cheetah as a status symbol. And there are more tigers in private collections in the United States than in the Indian sub-continent. Which kind of puts the appeals into perspective.