A professional guide died on the spot after being mauled by a lion on Monday while leading six foreign clients in the Hwange National Park, authorities confirmed.
It capitulated Monday, issuing a statement saying it would “officially ban shipment of all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies worldwide as freight”.
In a press statement-released on the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority’s website-the director-general, Edson Chidziya, stated the authority was working with law enforcement agencies to curb any further breaches of Zimbabwe’s hunting regulations.
The Justice Department said it would not comment on whether the case could be formally prosecuted until the wildlife agency concludes its investigation.
By now you’ve heard of Walter Palmer. We want him tried in Zimbabwe because he violated our laws.She did not explain the 500,000 but there are online petitions demanding Palmers extradition.I have already consulted with the authorities within the police force who are...
The combined authorities of the Zimbabwe National Park and Wildlife Management pointed the lion’s death to Seski. Killing one continues the species’ march toward extinction.
Even before the killing of Cecil the lion, campaigners had called for major cargo airlines to halt shipments of endangered species killed by trophy hunters.
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.
Off camera, Palmer’s next door neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, said she didn’t really know Walter Palmer but that his wife was a “great person'”.