SHOCKING! | A Minnesota Dentist Illegally Kills African Favorite Lion!
Treasured Lion in Zimbabwe’ National Park hunted, lured out of the park & killed by a Foreigner! The response was not taken lightly.
A spokesperson for Palmer told The Guardian: “As far as I understand, Walter believes that he might have shot that lion that has been referred to as Cecil.” BuzzFeed News attempted to reach Palmer at his dental practice but was unable to get through.
He paid $50,000 for illegal poaching and now there is international outrage for this beloved known lion.
The discovery that Cecil, the star of Zimbabwe national park had been lured out and killed by American bow hunter Walter James Palmer has resulted in online anger and protests at his dental clinic.
Outside Zimbabwe’s environmental and activist circles, however, the reaction been muted.
“It’s so cruel, but I don’t understand the whole fuss, there are so many pressing issues in Zimbabwe — we have water shortages, no electricity and no jobs — yet people are making noise about a lion?” said Eunice Vhunise, a Harare resident. “I saw Cecil once when I visited the game park. I will probably miss him. But honestly the attention is just too much.”
Investigators for the service knocked on the front door of Palmer’s house, stopped by his dental office, called his telephone numbers and filled his inbox with e-mails. Palmer, a hunting enthusiast who is accused of illegally killing a rare African lion in Zimbabwe early this month, couldn’t be lured out of hiding.
Late Thursday afternoon, though, the agency’s Office of Law Enforcement was contacted by somebody on Palmer’s behalf. “The Service’s investigation is ongoing and appreciates that Dr. Palmer’s representative reached out,” the agency said in a statement Friday.
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Cecil, a 13-year-old male lion, was of the main attractions at the Hwange national park in Zimbabwe. He was found decapitated and skinned, The Guardian reported. Cecil was reportedly lured out of the park using bait and then shot with a bow and arrow. A group of hunters tracked the lion for 40 hours before killing him with a rifle, the newspaper said. There were conflicting reports as to the nationality of the man believed to have killed the lion. Johnny Rodrigues, of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, originally said the man was Spanish, CNN and others reported.
A Zimbabwean involved in the hunt said they had not realized Cecil’s importance, The Telegraph said.
“It was a magnificent, mature lion,” he said. “We did not know it was well-known lion. I had a licence for my client to shoot a lion with a bow and arrow in the area where it was shot.”
By Elahe Izadi and Darryl Fears
