Vegetarian actor and comedian Ricky Gervais was recently awarded for standing up against trophy hunting by animal protection group The Humane Society International (HSI).

The Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning celeb received the first ever “Cecil Award,” which was created to commemorate Cecil, a well-known Zimbabwean lion killed in 2015 by an American trophy hunter. In a statement, The Humane Society’s U.S branch (HSUS) said the killing prompted “a global furor against this senseless ‘sport’.”

The organization lauded Gervais as one of the “most prominent voices heard globally” on the issue. When the news of Cecil’s death went viral, the actor took to Twitter and shared with his millions of followers a picture of Cecil alive, and the words “I am struggling to imagine anything more beautiful than this.”

Since then, Gervais continued to…