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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.

Cecil, lured away from a refuge and killed, was an attraction at…

The world, or at least the World of the Internets, is furious with the Minnesota dentist who stupidly killed Cecil the Lion.

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.

The holiday home of the US dentist who killed Zimbabwean favourite Cecil the Lion has been vandalised.

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'”.

Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans had called for Palmer’s extradition on social media, according to Muchinguri.

‘That was taken with the client’s camera, so I don’t have access to it, ‘ Bronkhorst said.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwean authorities are expected to seek the extradition of Walter Palmer, the Minnesota man thought to be responsible for killing Cecil the lion in early July.

Palmer’s dental practice in Minnesota has been the scene of protests against Cecil’s death, with crowds leaving stuffed toys of lions, tigers and monkeys outside the building.

The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Britain’s prestigious Oxford University, which had tracked Cecil since 2008, said more than £550,000 (S$1.2 million) had been received in donations over the past week.

Givemore Muvhiringi, Bronkhorst’s lawyer, asked for the trial postponement so he can prepare the case. Zimbabwe also has not requested his extradition.

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”.

Palmer hadn’t even seen the story yet about Minnesota-based dentist Walter Palmer, who was already under intense scrutiny for killing Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe.

Palmer, a resident of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, has admitted killing the 13-year-old lion, a favorite with foreign tourists and the subject of an Oxford University study.