Cecil hunt organiser to stand trial

Mr Rodrigues said the Task Force would raise the money for Cecil’s head to be mounted in a glass case and would ask the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority about the plan “once the dust had settled”.

Zimbabwean officials say they are seeking the extradition of another American, James Walter Palmer, for killing a well-known lion named Cecil in an early July hunt that was allegedly illegal.

The recipient will be the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the UK’s Oxford University, known as WildCRU, which had been tracking Cecil since 2008.

The slaying of the lion has triggered global outrage on social media, protests, and petitions calling for Palmer to be extradited to Zimbabwe.

Palmer has said he relied on the expertise of local guides “to ensure a legal hunt”. Just fyi, this pure natural legal proper scientificaly sound necessary hunt like all hunts was pure SPORT TROPHY MEAT FUN.

Now, the Disney film The Lion King has had the spoof treatment in “The Retribution of Cecil“, a satirical look at the intense anger towards Palmer, which has included for calls for the dentist to be skinned and hung.

Palmer is accused of financing an illegal hunt, and he and the professional hunter are accused of illegally using a bow and arrow to avoid detection by park rangers, Oppah Muchinguri, the African nation’s environment minister, said last week. “But I don’t think that single incident in itself is enough to dismiss the entire industry around trophy hunting”. “The landowner who helped him with the hunt also did not have a have a quota for lion hunting“.

“If they are found to be in conflict with those standards, we will return them to the donor”, the museum said in a statement.

“I feel sorry for my client (Palmer)”.

Care2 CEO Randy Paynter said at the launch of the poll: “It’s a tragedy that many of our planet’s most treasured species are also the most vulnerable to those who would take their lives for a trophy”.

But the guide, Theo Bronkhorst, told AFP on Friday that they had “shot an old male lion that I believed was past his breeding age…”

The brother of Cecil the lion is not dead, a researcher monitoring the pride has said. His dental practice also took a hit on review sites like Yelp, with scores of reviews berating him for killing Cecil were left.

“Since Cecil’s illegal death, David Macdonald, Andy Loveridge and the WildCRU team have worked tirelessly to turn this tragedy into an historic moment for the conservation of the lion…the big cat that is “disappearing in plain sight”.