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American dentist Walter James Palmer admitted last week that he killed Cecil in early July.

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.

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.

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...

“To lure the animal out of the preserve, I don’t understand how anybody thinks that’s a sport”.

Piper Hoppe, 10, from Minnetonka, Minnesota, holds a sign at the doorway of River Bluff Dental clinic in protest against the killing of a famous lion in Zimbabwe, in Bloomington, Minnesota July 29, 2015. Critics say the killing of Cecil demonstrates how the elite hunting industry...