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(12,655 posts) Mon Aug 3, 2015, 10:34 AM Aug 2015

Cecil the lion: big game hunting banned in Zimbabwe as outrage grows over animal killing [View all]

Source: Mirror

Big game hunting has been BANNED in Zimbabwe following the global disgust at the slaughter of Cecil the lion by a US dentist.

Authorities in the south African country announced the move after it emerged a second American hunter is wanted for allegedly killing a different lion in April.

According to the Daily Record, bow hunting has also been suspended.

Zimbabwean officials want to extradite 55-year-old dentist Palmer from Minnesota. He is reported to have paid £32,000 to hunt and kill Cecil, one of the best known lions in Africa.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cecil-lion-big-game-hunting-6185351

this could actually be the beginning of the end of trophy killing. we need to keep the pressure on.

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Cecil the lion: big game hunting banned in Zimbabwe as outrage grows over animal killing [View all] restorefreedom Aug 2015 OP

so many of those big game hunting private breeding camps all over Africa. Sunlei Aug 2015 #1

Good news. How about a ban in the U.S. next? Auggie Aug 2015 #2

Thats the ticket.......................... turbinetree Aug 2015 #3

Yay and yes. BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2015 #4

If you listen to some of the news broadcasts swilton Aug 2015 #12

Well, I guess animals are going to be treated better there than gays are. NYC Liberal Aug 2015 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author bloom Aug 2015 #7

A step forward is a step forward. And a step forward generally makes another step 1monster Aug 2015 #10

it is not a contest restorefreedom Aug 2015 #11

Not what I said at all. In fact, I think this is great news. NYC Liberal Aug 2015 #13

sorry if i misunderstood. restorefreedom Aug 2015 #15

+1 jonno99 Aug 2015 #28

Good grief kwolf68 Aug 2015 #35

Another one of what, exactly? NYC Liberal Aug 2015 #36

YES! Now extradite Palmer's ass and let him rot is a prison in Zimbabwe. n/t Still In Wisconsin Aug 2015 #6

Protest Against Second Illeagal Trophy Hunting 'Creature' Wednesday 6:00 p.m. swilton Aug 2015 #8

My adopted father was a big game hunter. mithnanthy Aug 2015 #9

Wow, that's a lot of trophies. harun Aug 2015 #16

i'm sorry for what you had to go through shanti Aug 2015 #21

like the others, I am sorry for what you had to go through. how utterly awful. niyad Aug 2015 #24

What a shocking and disgusting picture of death. What creeps!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2015 #26

to be surrounded by so much death, and glory in it, is truly sickening. niyad Aug 2015 #39

That looks very much like "home". mithnanthy Aug 2015 #32

I cannot even begin to imagine what it was like to be surrounded by such horror. niyad Aug 2015 #40

extradite the asshole dentist and doctor samsingh Aug 2015 #14

Some of it's not even hunting. Just animals kept in cages and released before getting shot. mainer Aug 2015 #17

that is why I refer to it as trophy killing restorefreedom Aug 2015 #19

Exactly what they are, "psycho scumbags." And they are one step away from hunting humans. IMO RKP5637 Aug 2015 #27

boy would i like to see that. nt restorefreedom Aug 2015 #30

I don't understand why so many doctors in this arena. juajen Aug 2015 #34

It's weird, isn't it. Maybe because they have lots of money and can afford to do it. Maybe RKP5637 Aug 2015 #37

its creepy restorefreedom Aug 2015 #38

Jan Siske, too. Extradite and throw his sorry ass in Zimbabwe jail. magical thyme Aug 2015 #18

perfect! shanti Aug 2015 #20

Hope they won't back down, and will enforce this ban strictly. It's time to grow up. n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2015 #22

Maybe this noble creature lost his life for a noble cause. Marie Marie Aug 2015 #23

GOOD, it's about bloody time they did that Warpy Aug 2015 #25

That's a qualified success. no_hypocrisy Aug 2015 #29

The legal trade in trophies and hides provides them cover. LeftyMom Aug 2015 #31

This should have been done years ago. Third Doctor Aug 2015 #33