What the sad story of the influencer and baby Wombat teaches us

What do you do if you meet a Wombat on the street in Australia – or any animal on any continent in the world – but above all a Wombat because it is a protected species? It’s simple: you stop at a great distance, and wait for passing away, then with caution you leave. Or, if it is at the edge of the road, and you can pass on it at a great distance, you go without disturbing. That is, do what he would like.

Instead The social social media are full of animals, it moves them, disturbs them, put them in situations of danger specifically and then do the “saviors”. The story of Samstrays_somewhere But he really infuriated more than ever practically everyone – and this time not only the animalists. The story is now known: Sam Jones stopped on the road at night, took a small Wombat in her arms who was on the edge of the roadway together with the mother to take it in front of the video camera, show it, and then say, “now the mother is infuriating so I leave him”.

Hence the storm. The video was commented on by thousands of furious people, taken from all national and international media, The Australian Prime Minister commented “he could have done it with a small alligator”Interior Minister Tony Burke, he warned that the immigration authorities would verify the girl’s visa. She left her sponte before things got worse, darkened the video of the baby Wombat and posted two press releases.

In the first press release He says: “I didn’t want to hurt him or steal him from his mother”. And we hope well – we say – that he didn’t want to take him to take him home or kill him, But the futile reason is more: it is that he took it to make a video. Obviously Sam ensures that it was not the reason, he did not do it for the likes – he says – it was the meeting, and he took it to move him from the street so that he did not risk being invested. So in the first post he apologizes and addresses his justifications (a little little credible).

In the second press releaseto posted yesterday (once at home) part of the attack: I entitle it “Am I the bad guy?“And he begins to list all the abuses on Wombat and wild animals made by landowners and the Australian government, in nature and in the zoo, commenting” Is this right? “,” Are I bad? “.

Without a doubt it is true, without doubt the animals suffer from these days our vulgar anthropocentrism, of course Go see the animals to the zoo or worse at the circus It is a choice that borders on sadism, But not for this the gesture of Sam loses its abuse value. With this “ok I can have made a mistake but you are more bad than me” the influencer comes out even worse than how it could have. Better not to comment further.

More important to remember what it would be nice that we did us: let the social media, do not watch videos in which animals appear because they are born mostly from exploitation and submission, From the usual thought that our laugh is worth more than their life, that our entertainment allows everything. We look at the animals we have around us, ask ourselves how to respect them, and protect them. Every small meeting, in this way, fortuitous, from afar, will be a real emotion.