The authority said Seski killed the lion – without approval – with a bow and arrow on land where it was not allowed, near Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, according to the Associated Press.
A news release from Zimbabwe’s national Parks and Wildlife Management Authority only named Dr. Seski as a client of Sibanda’s and does not indicate that he has been charged with any violations, according to the Post-Gazette. The lion was lured out of Hwange park,...
The deaths of both lions have sparked global outrage and forced both Palmer and Seski to go into hiding as death threats mount and their professional lives are put on hold.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has also opened an investigation into the killing of Cecil. The wounded cat was later tracked down and Palmer allegedly killed it with a gun, they said. She said that Cecil’s killing was “deliberate” because it had taken place on...
Now-former patient Morgan Strober tells People in an exclusive interview that she had no idea Palmer’s fancy vacations to Africa entailed killing the animals there.
Palmer paid $55,000 for the hunt earlier this month in which he shot Cecil with a powerful bow and arrow outside Hwange national park in the west of Zimbabwe.
Dan Politt, 16, was with his parents at the home Wednesday afternoon bleaching the bright blotches left by the pigs feet that were staining Palmer’s driveway.
His coalition partner, Jericho the lion, was feared dead this weekend, but Zimbabwe authorities say a research project snapped a photo of Jericho on Sunday morning.
Johnny Rodrigues, a senior park official and head of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, told CNN that a hunter illegally gunned down Jericho in Hwange National Park.
Walter James Palmer, who has kept a low profile in the face of protests at his clinic, is being sought for questioning by Zimbabwe authorities but according to the U.S. embassy in the capital Harare, there is no information about any extradition request. Stapelkamp had first...
The (IFAW) said the death has gained traction because many Americans were not aware hunting the big cats is legal in many African nations when 75 percent of Americans are opposed to lion trophy hunting.