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RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - Siegfried - 07-30-2015

This jerk's life is being made a living hell thanks to social media.


RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - chaos - 07-30-2015

Deservedly so! Let this be a lesson learned for other heartless, wealthy so called trophy hunters.
Like Peter said earlier in this thread, if we can't punish them legally, at least we can attack and
deliver a powerful message through social media. His reputation is permanently tarnished, and
his livelihood will be seriously impacted. Unfortunately, he's only one of many. The fact this has
gone viral is a huge plus in the plight to protect endangered wildlife. But its only a small step.


RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - Siegfried - 07-30-2015

There is a bit of a politically based backlash in response to the outrage to this killing.  Fox News is using it to further their specific agenda regarding the Planned Parenthood story.

 

 


RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - chaos - 07-31-2015

Not likely, but I'd love to see it.
http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabwe-wildlife-minister-says-extradition-being-sought-american-092419221.html?soc_src=copy


RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - tigerluver - 08-02-2015

There were reports of Cecil's brother being poached. The ZCTF stated that he was shot at 4 PM Aug. 1. Researchers are now saying he's fine. False info or has another lion been poached, I wonder.


RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - chaos - 08-02-2015

http://news.yahoo.com/cecil-lion-lights-yorks-empire-state-building-093226381.html?soc_src=copy
This isn't going away quietly
 


RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - peter - 08-03-2015

1 - SUPPORT FOR MR. PALMER IN THE NETHERLANDS

Mr. Palmer is hot over here as well. Although many like to see him apprehended, there's also support. This article appeared in a local newspaper. It isn't about the interview, but about the 6 pictures at the top. A woman posted photographs of the animals she shot in Africa. A lot more will be posted soon, she announced: 

http://www.omroepbrabant.nl/?news/2337661113/Wereldwijde+boosheid+om+doodschieten+leeuw+Cecil+verbaast+jager+Bergen+op+Zoom+%E2%80%98Imago+is+in+gevaar%E2%80%99.aspx


2 - BREEDING LIONS FOR HUNTERS

After Mr. Palmer had made headlines, articles appeared. In a number of these, captive lions featured. Many over here didn't know that some of the animals interesting for big game hunters are bred on farms. In South Africa alone, at least 6000 lions are waiting for customers. 

This video (length 02:18) was recently broadcasted (on Dutch television). Some parts are disturbing:     

http://nos.nl/artikel/2049888-in-zuid-afrika-wacht-6000-leeuwen-de-doodstraf.html


RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - Pckts - 08-03-2015

Very sad that people still don't know about canned hunting.
Apparently there is a new doc that is out, not sure if I can bring my self to watch it or not.


RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - chaos - 08-04-2015

(08-03-2015, 09:57 PM)'peter' Wrote: 1 - SUPPORT FOR MR. PALMER IN THE NETHERLANDS

Mr. Palmer is hot over here as well. Although many like to see him apprehended, there's also support. This article appeared in a local newspaper. It isn't about the interview, but about the 6 pictures at the top. A woman posted photographs of the animals she shot in Africa. A lot more will be posted soon, she announced: 

http://www.omroepbrabant.nl/?news/2337661113/Wereldwijde+boosheid+om+doodschieten+leeuw+Cecil+verbaast+jager+Bergen+op+Zoom+%E2%80%98Imago+is+in+gevaar%E2%80%99.aspx


2 - BREEDING LIONS FOR HUNTERS

After Mr. Palmer had made headlines, articles appeared. In a number of these, captive lions featured. Many over here didn't know that some of the animals interesting for big game hunters are bred on farms. In South Africa alone, at least 6000 lions are waiting for customers. 

This video (length 02:18) was recently broadcasted (on Dutch television). Some parts are disturbing:     

http://nos.nl/artikel/2049888-in-zuid-afrika-wacht-6000-leeuwen-de-doodstraf.html

 

F...ing sickening.
 


RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - Roflcopters - 08-07-2015

Hopefully Cecil's death marks the end of all these senseless killing of lions, I dont get whats their to brag about hunting an animal who isnt even aware of the fact that hes being hunted down. And from the looks of it, Cecil's death is not being ignored and this guy is at the verge of losing his entire career. good riddance. public shaming and the power of social media is a lethal weapon against these morons.


RE: Hunters kill Zimbabwes most famous lion - Leo Aslan - 04-10-2021

Lions of Africa - Cecil (c. 2002-02 July 2015) 
Hwange National Park - Zimbabwe
Ranger report: The Tragedy of a famous male Lion
...Cecil was a lion who lived primarily in the Hwange National Park in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. Cecil was named after the British businessman, politician and mining magnate Cecil Rhodes, as was the country of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Another lion thought to be Cecil's brother was noticed in Hwange National Park in 2008. During 2009, the two lions encountered an established pride, which resulted in a fight in which Cecil's brother was killed, and both Cecil and the leader of the pride were seriously wounded; the leader was subsequently killed by park rangers because of the wounds he had incurred during the fight with Cecil. Cecil retreated to another part of the park where he eventually established his own pride which had as many as 22 members. During 2013, Cecil was forced out from the area by two young male lions into the eastern border of the park. There, he created a coalition with another male lion named Jericho to establish two prides which consisted of Cecil, Jericho, half a dozen females and up to a dozen cubs sired by Cecil or Jericho. Cecil was identifiable by his black-fringed mane and a GPS tracking collar. The lions in the park, including Cecil, have been studied by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford as part of a scientific project that has run since 1999, and his movements had been followed since 2008. Of the 62 lions tagged during the study period, 34 have died, including 24 through sport hunting. Of adult male lions that were tagged inside the park, 72% were killed through sport hunting on areas near the park. One of the researchers on the project suggested that Cecil had become so popular because he was accustomed to people, allowing vehicles sometimes as close as 10 metres (33 ft), making it easy for tourists and researchers to photograph and observe him. Cecil was the park's main attraction.
During 2013, 49 hunted lion carcasses were exported from Zimbabwe as trophies; the 2005–2008 Zimbabwe hunt "off-take" (licensed kills) average was 42 lions per year. 
During June 2015, Walter J. Palmer, an American recreational game hunter, reportedly paid US$50,000 to a Zimbabwean professional hunter-guide, Theo Bronkhorst, to enable him to kill a lion. In the late afternoon of 1 July, Bronkhorst and tracker Cornelius Ncube built a hunting blind in Atoinette Farm, a private property owned by Honest Ndlovu. Between 9 pm and 11 pm, Palmer shot and wounded Cecil with an arrow. The hunters tracked the wounded lion and killed him with a second arrow the next morning (about 10 to 12 hours later) at a location less than 250 metres from the initial shot. The hunt took place outside Hwange National Park, a protected area, but within the lion's normal range. Cecil's body was then skinned and his head removed. When the lion's headless skeleton was found by park investigators, his tracking collar was missing.
Cecil's killing went largely unnoticed in the animal's native Zimbabwe. The country's The Chronicle newspaper wrote: "It is not an overstatement that almost 99.99 percent of Zimbabweans didn’t know about this animal until Monday. Now we have just learnt, thanks to the British media, that we had Africa’s most famous lion all along, an icon!" The BBC's Farai Sevenzo wrote: "The lion's death has not registered much with the locals". 
Xanda, a son of Cecil's, was legally shot by trophy hunters in Zimbabwe on 20 July 2017. He was six years old and the father of several young cubs. Despite this being termed a 'legal' act of killing, it provoked reactions, not just amongst advocates of animal rights. The BBC termed it a 'sad' inheritance from Cecil.
The "Cecil effect" is a term used by some to express the belief that after the killing of Cecil, there was a reduction in the number of hunters coming to Zimbabwe and a subsequent increase in lion populations in certain areas.
Those who believe in the effect say hunters are staying away from Zimbabwe due to fear of negative publicity. About a month after Cecil was killed, when international uproar was at its peak, Zimbabwean hunting guide Quinn Swales was killed by a lion on a hunt. Some of his fellow guides speculated that he was afraid of shooting the animal out of fear of the possible backlash due to Cecil. According to guide Steve Taylor, "This guy was a really successful guide, and he died by a lion. And I think that's the Cecil Effect. Guides in Zimbabwe are petrified of having the world turn on them."