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Zimbabwe hunts killer of Cecil the Lion Walter James Killer
Walter James Palmer is accused of killing Cecil, a famous 13-year-old lion from Zimbabwe. Conservation officials say Palmer paid two local to lure the lion out of a national park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSUVmQMHcnQ
The Internet is in an uproar this week over the recent killing of a well-known lion in Zimbabwe. Walter J. Palmer, a Minnesota dentist, allegedly baited Cecile the lion out of a national park by dragging a dead animal behind a car at night. Palmer shot it with a crossbow. The wounded lion escaped and wasn't found by Palmer and his fellow hunters until 40 hours later, when they killed it with a rifle.
This would all be perfectly legal had the lion not been a resident of Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, a protected area. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimates that trophy-hunting tourists legally kill some 600 lions each year. Jane Smart, the global director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group, said in an interview that the 600 figure is several years old and the actual number is probably a little bit higher than that. Given that there are only about 30,000 lions left in Africa, this represents an annual loss of roughly 2 percent of the total lion population to legal hunting, and a considerably larger share of the population of healthy adult male lions, which hunters typically prize.
Please read more from here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...of-lions-each-year-and-its-all-legal/?hpid=z4
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...of-lions-each-year-and-its-all-legal/?hpid=z4
Walter James Palmer is accused of killing Cecil, a famous 13-year-old lion from Zimbabwe. Conservation officials say Palmer paid two local to lure the lion out of a national park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSUVmQMHcnQ
The Internet is in an uproar this week over the recent killing of a well-known lion in Zimbabwe. Walter J. Palmer, a Minnesota dentist, allegedly baited Cecile the lion out of a national park by dragging a dead animal behind a car at night. Palmer shot it with a crossbow. The wounded lion escaped and wasn't found by Palmer and his fellow hunters until 40 hours later, when they killed it with a rifle.
This would all be perfectly legal had the lion not been a resident of Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, a protected area. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimates that trophy-hunting tourists legally kill some 600 lions each year. Jane Smart, the global director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group, said in an interview that the 600 figure is several years old and the actual number is probably a little bit higher than that. Given that there are only about 30,000 lions left in Africa, this represents an annual loss of roughly 2 percent of the total lion population to legal hunting, and a considerably larger share of the population of healthy adult male lions, which hunters typically prize.
Please read more from here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...of-lions-each-year-and-its-all-legal/?hpid=z4
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...of-lions-each-year-and-its-all-legal/?hpid=z4
