Reporter: Riding across Zimbabwe Savannah this week it looks much as it ever did.
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Decked out in camouflage gear, Palmer knelt next to the bear corpse, propped his bow on its lifeless body and posed with his prize in a photo obtained from the Wisconsin Department Natural Resources by ABC News.
Cecil, famous across Africa for his black mane and also the subject of an Oxford University research project, was just wounded. He has been the victim of an endless onslaught of demonization all across the airways and social media. “It’s murder”.
A sign posted on the door at River Bluff Dental, the practice…
In the wake of the outcry over Cecil a number of US airlines bowed to public pressure and agreed to stop carrying buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino trophies.
“I’m not going to take Dr. Palmer and hang him on my wall. Trophy hunting is no sport; it is merely a disguise for killing to massage an ego”. Quigley, a native Minnesotan, then flew in from California and with black tar paper, outlined an image of Cecil on a hill in the park. The world is outraged over Cecil’s death.
Hunt co-ordinator Theo Bronkhorst was arrested. He deserves punishment. Cecil, it took your death to show people the illegal hunting that goes on daily.
It noted that there had been more than 1 million signatures to online petitions calling for the end of legal lion hunting.
Now photos have emerged in the US showing the Minnesota dentist had participated in an illegal hunt before. The US government is considering putting lions on its list of endangered species. Heck, even researchers use it without defining it on scientific surveys to learn folks’ attitudes about hunting.
The dentist, who grew up hunting in North Dakota, maintains he filed the right permits and hired several knowledgeable guides during his African adventure, believing the hunt was sanctioned. By my definition, I’m no trophy hunter.
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This claim is infuriating to purist preservationists such as Flocken, who says “killing for conservation sounds like an oxymoron – and it is”. According to TMZ, August 14, 2015, it isn’t the first time he’s illegally shot and killed an animal. He received only a $2,938 fine and no jail time. The final product was a giant art installation made up of people standing in the outline of a lion, along with the words “courage” and “protect”.
