The brother of Cecil, the lion killed in Zimbabwe by a wealthy US dentist, has been shot and killed, the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force says.
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A Cabinet member in Zimbabwe said Friday that the government has asked “the responsible authorities” to extradite Palmer so he can be “made accountable” in Cecil the lion’s death.
The public opinion on such killing of wildlife has changed also in the USA since the days of Teddy Roosevelt, an ardent hunter of African wildlife like Winston Churchill, who maimed tons of Rhinos in Sudan or pathological game-shooters like Prince Philip and his family or the ailing former Spanish King, who became infamous for his Elephant kills, and many people, who are appalled by the Zimbabwean Lion-kill story, engage now in hunting the psychologically obviously disturbed dentist. “Police should take the first step to approach the prosecutor general who will approach the Americans”. He believed the hunt was legal. Reporter: According to palmer’s guide shooting the lion wasn’t enough for this guy.
There is an extradition treaty between Zimbabwe and the United States.
Zimbabwe’s environmental minister says the nation has started the extradition proceedings and hopes the U.S. will cooperate.
“We are trying other avenues”, said Richard Chibuwe, the deputy chief of mission at the embassy in Washington.
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition asking the US to extradite Palmer.
An agency spokesman verified the tweet but declined further comment. More broadly, Mugabe has long railed against what he calls Western meddling in Africa, saying it is an extension of the colonial rule of the past. Between 1999 and 2013, the United States imported the trophies of about 5,763 wild lions or 411 per year.
On Thursday, officials said efforts to contact Palmer had been unsuccessful and urged him on Twitter to get in touch.
“They (U.S. courts) may actually doubt the competence of the judiciary here to try him in an objective manner particularly given these prejudicial pronouncements that the politicians are already making”, said Muchadehama. In a note to his patients, he wrote: “I understand and respect that not everyone shares the same views on hunting”.
Germany’s UN ambassador, Harald Braun, said he was “outraged at what happened to this poor lion”.
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Many of these lions were born and raised around humans for participation in “cub-petting” experiences – where well-meaning tourists are lured in by the experience to take photos with an adorable cub, and they have no clue about the sinister fate that awaits those animals.
