Zimbabwe accuses 2nd American of illegally hunting lion

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines said Monday it has banned shipment of lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies as freight.

The safari company said: “We have all been working hard to work through the correct channels and bring about positive long term changes to ensure Cecil’s death was not in vain and that the focus moving forward is working to protect the Lions and wildlife in and around Hwange National Park”.

Jan Casimir Seski is a gynecological oncologist who directs the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Seski didn’t respond to messages left by The Associated Press.

Cecil’s killer, Walter James Palmer, became one of the most hated men in the world after he lured the handsome creature out of the Hwange National Park and shot him with crossbows. Country officials said that Zimbabwe is now seen as a county that “does not promote and protect animal rights”, according to USA Today.

The Care2 petition points out that the death of Cecil could also mean death for his cubs, who may be killed when other male lions take his place in the pride.

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.

“During this trip, Dr. Seski did lawfully hunt and take a lion,” said his Washington attorney, Gregory Linsin.

National Parks spokeswoman Caroline Washaya Moyo said Seski had provided his name and other identifying information for a government database when he came for the hunt. The landowner also questioned why he had not been arrested if hunting was unlawful on his property. Zimbabwe also has not requested his extradition.

PEOPLE moved by the killing of Zimbabwe’s beloved lion Cecil have donated more than half a million pounds ($1.2 million) in his memory towards lion conservation, the unit which spent years tracking Cecil said Tuesday.

This comes as the guide who led that hunting trip in Zimbabwe suggests Cecil was not the only animal Palmer wanted to kill, CBS News’ David Begnaud reports.

“I’m not saying an end to everything”, he said.

A second U.S. doctor is accused by Zimbabwe officials of illegally killing a lion.

The United States is now in the process of extraditing two defendants, Dawie and Janneman Groenewald, from South Africa in that case.