For weeks now reports have been streaming out of Zimbabwe Africa about who killed the beloved lion Cecil that strayed out of Hwange National Park, These reports point to trophy hunters as Cecil’s killer.
Hunting for the biggest, toughest wild animal is trophy hunting. Let us refer to a well known trophy hunter Ermest Hemingway, July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961, and a famous American literary writer.
“Hemingway’s trophies included a lion and other large game that roamed the African grasslands.” Quote from Ernest Hemingway Collection http://www.ernesthemingwaycollection.com/about-hemingway/ernest-hemingway-in-africa
Photograph is of Ernest Hemingway in Africa with lion he killed
Just who Killed Cecil the beloved lion?
Watch the following video
New reports point to an American Dentist from Minnesota as Cecil’s Killer
Cecil The Lion’s Killer ‘Revealed As American Dentist Walt Palmer’ Who Bribed Guides £35,000, The Huffington Post UK | By Lucy Sherriff, 28/07/2015 “The man who is believed to have paid wildlife guides £35,000 to let him hunt and kill Zimbabwe’s beloved lion Cecil, is reportedly an American dentist who had already been in trouble with the law after slaying a black bear…Walter Palmer, who has been identified by the Telegraph, and famed for being an “elite hunter”, allegedly shot Cecil with a bow and arrow earlier this month in Hwange National
Park.” http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/28/man-killed-cecil-the-lion-american-dentist-walt-palmer_n_7886186.html?1438090549
A history of lion hunting
The following quote comes from ‘AN ANALYSIS OF THE LION BREEDING INDUSTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA’-by ANTON CRONE http://magazine.africageographic.com/weekly/issue-8/lion-king-commodity/
“A wild lion is a scrappy thing. A fierce, disheveled, fly-bitten beast with battle scars from nose to tail and a matted, grimy mane. This is a rug you don’t want on your living room floor. But the beast has been cleaned up and rebranded in one of the greatest wildlife marketing stunts of all time.”
” Since humans painted them on a cave wall in France 30,000 years ago, lions have populated our imagination. Despite being extinct in Britain and Europe for thousands of years, they have grown in stature through myths and legends.” Read more about this in the link above.
Africa’s wildlife in danger
My heart sinks heavy as reports keep coming out of Africa about canned hunts, trophy hunts, I dreamed of traveling to Africa as a young girl and walking along the African savanna viewing vast herds of wildlife.
I will keep my dream alive and know that there are many people working to stop the slaughter of African Wildlife.
‘Blood Lions” is a must see filmed about canned lion hunts.
Watch the following trailer:
he following list is of news articles on the fight to stop the poaching of Africa’s rare and endangered wildlife
http://www.bloodlions.org/canned-lion-hunting-film-opens/
https://www.thedodo.com/community/FrontierGap/africas-poaching-crisis-how-do-699797004.html
http://www.rhinos.org/operation-stop-poaching-now
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3027036/The-Afghanistan-veteran-catching-poachers-Africa-Female-soldier-working-alongside-park-rangers-searching-detaining-wildlife-slayers.html
Capturing wildlife with a camera
Wildlife should be shot only with a camera
Why do Local African poachers go to jail while privileged tourist leave with a trophy?
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