Surprising no one familiar with his pro-hunting politics, Motor City Madman Ted Nugent has taken off on a riff of sorts defending the Minnesota dentist who shot Cecil, Zimbabwe’s most famous lion.
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Another hunter, who feared that hunting in Zimbabwe was now on its last legs, said: “Some of us have been through the data in connection with the hunt in which Palmer was involved, and it all looks okay according to the present legislation”.
Alaska Bowhunting Provide did not instantly reply Sunday to a request for remark, and it wasn’t clear how the searching provide firm discovered such particulars concerning the hunt.
On Monday, Zimbabwe formally accused Jan Casimir Seski, a gynecological oncologist from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, of shooting the lion – using, like Palmer, a crossbow – near Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park.
Wildlife authorities have halted the hunting of big cats and elephants around Hwange National Park.
According to the wildlife authority, a landowner from Zimbabwe, Headman Sibanda, was taken into custody in the Seski case and he is helping police.
He said that hunters had accused him of taking money from hunts, a claim he denied. Palmer has said he believed the hunt was legal. “The American carried out his hunt in an space the place lion searching is outlawed”.
Two different unlawful lion hunts additionally have been recorded final yr in Zimbabwe, stated Geoffrey Matipano, conservation director for the wildlife authority. The head of Zimbabwes safari association said the killing was unethical and that it couldnt even be classified as a hunt, since the lion killed by an American dentist was lured into the kill zone. “This was a case of mistaken identity, but a lion has in fact been killed…although we are relieved that it was not Jericho, we are not happy that yet another lion has been killed”, added the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force.
Trevor Lane, of the Bhejane Trust in Zimbabwe, said he had spoken to the researcher who had put collars on Jericho and Cecil.
“We have already had a cancellation from an American client in our hunting operation”, said the hunter/owner of a small hunting company. Cecil was a favorite with global visitors and was being studied by Oxford University.
The Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Oppah Muchinguri said that they are appealing to the proper authorities for Palmer’s extradition, the Associated Press reports.
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Delta Airlines announced last week that it no longer would accept as cargo the carcasses of endangered exotic animals killed by trophy hunters.
