As we reported, Palmer is a dentist from Minnesota who has been identified as the person who allegedly killed Cecil, a famous lion in Zimbabwe.
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The hunt is meanwhile said to have exposed financial difficulties facing Zimbabwe’s wildlife conservation authority as official figures show trophy hunting generates some 40 million U.S. dollars annually for the country.
In addition, bow and arrow hunts have been suspended unless they are approved by the head of the director of the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, the organization said.
The death of another lion in April is being investigated after the authority received information this week.
While Palmer’s case is high profile, Vladeck said, “the actual legal questions are actually routine and mundane”.
Walter James Palmer reportedly paid €47,000 ($50,000) to shoot the 13-year-old lion in Zimbabwe earlier this month.
The U.S. hasn’t sent anyone to Zimbabwe since the treaty took effect and vice versa, according to a State Department official who was not authorized to address the issue by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Hwange is favoured by hunters because of its teeming wildlife, Matipano said. “He killed an icon that so many around the world looked to… for no good reason, for no reason at all”, Schiffer said.
Emmanuel Fundira, chairman of the Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe, said his association could lose business as a result of the new hunting ban, but added that the measures were necessary to protect wildlife.
Meanwhile, a Zimbabwean newspaper is reporting that the landowner in the Cecil the Lion case still hasn’t been charged for his part in the lion’s killing.
A country with one of the worst human rights records on the planet is expending a great deal of energy on bringing back the hunter and making sure justice is served.
A report on the Facebook page of an advocacy group called the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said Jericho was killed Saturday and that it would provide more details when they were available.
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‘We had obtained the permit for bow hunting, we had obtained the permit for the lion from the council, ‘ Bronkhorst, who is due to stand trial on August 5, said.
