Yes. Very unfortunate. I’m sure God grieves the life of animals lost, we are told all creation groans under the weight of our sin and awaits the renewal that is coming. But God clearly prizes human life, we alone on earth are created in His image, and we alone are the ones He died to save.
Unfortunately the ADD attention span of our society is easily distracted by shiny objects like the death of a lion.
I’ll bet those most upset with the lions death are the same ones that have no problems with killing a “clump of cells” right up to delivery.
The same people protesting the death of this Lion probably are the same ones who have no probably with woman taking the life of their children through abortions.