Posted on 07/28/2015 11:35:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An American dentist has been accused of killing a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe earlier this month, the chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (WCTF) confirmed.
The Zimbabwe tourism authority named the man accused of killing Cecil as Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist and avid big-game hunter.
“#WalterJamesPalmer was the man who killed #CecilTheLion. This was an #illegalhunt,” the authority posted on Twitter.
The Associated Press reported that Zimbabwean conservationists had accused an American of paying $50,000 to kill the lion.
The American “shot the lion with a bow and arrow."
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Rodrigues told the Star that the 13-year-old lion, which was skinned and beheaded, was shot on a ranch after it was “drawn out” of the Hwange National Park.
The hunters used a spotlight and “tied a dead animal to their vehicle” to lure Cecil out, the WCTF statement said. “It took them another 40 hours to find where the lion was and then they killed it with a rifle,” Rodrigues said.
“A lot of people have seen this lion. He was magnificent. People came to Zimbabwe to see this animal and now he’s not here anymore, and it’s a pity.”
Rodrigues said Cecil was being studied by Oxford University researchers, and its tracking collar was recovered alongside its carcass. “They tried to destroy the collar but failed because it was found,” the WCTF said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
Exactly, some issues bring the liberals out in droves on this site.
Turn the Douche Bag Dentist loose in the jungle and let’s hunt him...
This is not hunting...lure a lion off a game reserve and kill it? B.S. You don’t have to be a liberal to see how stupid this idiot is.
I think his sentence ought to be 2 hours in a cage at the zoo with a lion. We’ll really see good his safari skills are then.
It's scumbags like this make the rest of us look bad.
He is, quite possibly, the most hated man in the world right now.
There’s hunting and then there’s the bloody ego gratification of
mounting heads for the wall.
$ 50,000.00 for a lion hunt on ancestral grounds, next to game preserve.
Lodging & meals, 20% gratuity.
#LionLivesMatter
#MoreThanBabies
3000 babies MURDERED in cold blood every day, and no one bats an eyelash- Yet let a hunter bag a trophy and everyone goes mental- natives used to run whole herds of buffalo off of cliffs, there would be so many dead animals that they would rot before the tribes could ‘harvest’ them all. Animals are ‘led to their death ‘ DAILY as they go through a slaughterhouse so that we can go to the supermarket and pick up out juicy porterhouse steak all neatly wrapped up in cellophane and cleaned of all the blood and guts cover it during butchering-
There wasn’t this much outrage when Dr Death- Kermit gosnell was aborting live babies- the left was defending him for crying out loud-
Noone cares to see the truth about supplying food for this country, and how much ‘waste’ and ‘collateral damage’ there is as millions of animals inevitably die of disease and heat, and cramped conditions etc- as ranchers try to keep up with the DEMAND for Yummy beef, lamb, pork etc- Noone says a word because, well, they like a good juicy steak- Yet let a hunter kill a lion and by golly he’s scum and according to some posters here and on twitter, he deserves the same fate- these same people condemning the dentist would themselves bash a squirrel over the head if it got into their house, or a bat, or a rat- they would set traps for mice (or hire orkin to do the dirty work for them), and think nothing of spraying for cockroaches, ants, spiders, fleas or whatever, and think nothing of it, but because a lion ‘looks cuter’ they go into convulsions because someone killed it
Hunter kills a lion after his guide lured it out- oh my, the horror- 3000 CHILDREN are murdered in cold blood every single day- and the outraged animal lovers yawn. Animals in research facilities endure pain for the sake of mankind, butt that’s ok- no one talks about it because by golly we love our mary kay, our underarm deoderants etc- (Note I’m not railing against test animal practices, just noting the hypocrisy of those ‘outraged’ that a lion was killed- outraged to the point of hoping the dentist dies)
Unbelievable- We have drug dealers killing and murdering our kids in the 1000’s., we have ILLEGAL ALIENS murdering our citizens In the 1000’s, we have ILLEGAL ALIENS sucking $500 BILLION dollars away from OUR legal citizens- literally taking food out of the mouths of starving poor kid’s mouths, and we have a president trampling our constitutional rights, We have terrorists sawing off the heads of Christians all around the world, and nobody says a freakin word- yet let a lion get killed by a trophy hunter and the world goes berserk- Psssst, folks, baiting has always been used in lion hunting in Africa- The bait is often dragged around a large area before taking it to a spot to hang it in a tree and a blind is set up for the hunter to shoot from- dragging it around aN area first ensures that the smell of dead bait is spread over large are to draw lions in- And many on this forum thread want this fella to die for doing what is allowed? Wow!
“Helpful hints and tips when hunting the African lion – Hunting the African lion is traditionally done in one of two ways:
One – by baiting. Bait is set up in much the similar fashion to that of lion, excepting that the bait is not all the way up in a tree to make it accessible to the lion. Drags are created and a blind / hide is built soon as the lion starts feeding.”
http://www.huntinginafrica.co.za/more-info/hunting-the-african-big-5/hunting-lion/
Nothing better than wild game in the skillet..!!
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