In Harare, Zimbabwe (AP) – the collar lion’s murder of the trophy hunter Zimbabwe was condemned by wildlife groups, and the fact that a decade ago was committed by the infamous lion, known as Cecil.
The latest lion, known as Blondie, was part of the Oxford University study and wore a research collar supported by Safari’s Africa Geographic. Africa’s geographical said Blondie June. The hunter killed near the country’s exemplary Hwange National Park after being removed from the protected area and to a nearby hunting area using a bait.
After Blondie’s murder became a new cry for the rally for those opposing hunting, Zimbabwe National Parks spokesman said Thursday Associated Press said the hunt was legitimate and the hunter had the necessary permits. Zimbabwe allows you to hunt up to 100 lions a year. Trophy hunters, usually foreign tourists, pay tens of thousands of dollars for killing a lion and grab their head or skin as a trophy.
Simon Esppley, CEO of Africa Geographic, said Blondie’s killing did “ethics mockery from ethics” trophy Hunters said he stated because he wore a clearly visible research collar and was a breeding man. Hunters say they direct only aging, non -breeding lions.
“That Blondie’s famous collar did not prevent him from offering a hunting client to confirm the vivid reality that no lion is safe from trophy hunting weapons,” said Esppley.
Hunting lions are fiercely divorced, even among conservationists. Some say that if it is well managed, it accumulates money that can be returned to preservation. Others want wildlife to kill the sport to be banned.
Some African countries, such as Kenya, have commercial hunting prohibitions, others such as Zimbabwe and South Africa. Botswana abolished the ban on hunting six years ago.
A spokesman for the Zimbabwe Parks Agency, Tinhehe Farawo, said hunting money is very important in support of the South African nation’s insufficiently funded preservation efforts. He defended the hunt and said they often happened at night, which means that the Blondie collar was perhaps not visible.
He said he did not have information about the Blondie being taken out of the park with a bait, which is usually a dead animal, but “there is nothing unethical or illegal what knows how hunting lions are hunted. That’s how people hunt.”
“There were our rails. All the documents were neat. The pics are for research purposes, but they do not make the animal’s immunity to hunting,” Fawo said. He refused to name the hunter.
2015 Cecil’s murder forgived the fooled anger against Walter Palmer, a dentist and trophy hunter, who seduced a lion from the same National Park in Zimbabwe and shot him a bow, following him a few hours ago and finally killing him. Cecil, whose head and skin were cut and taken into the trophies, also participated in an Oxford University research project.
Initially, the Zimbabwe authorities said they would seek to extract Palmer for hunting, although it did not happen, and the hunting manager, who helped him, was arrested only for the allegations that need to be lifted.
The Zimbabwe National Parks Agency says the country earns about $ 20 million a year from Tropy Hunting, and one hunter spent an average of $ 100,000 for hunting, which includes accommodation and vehicle recruitment and local observers.
In Zimbabwe, about 1,500 wild lions are home to about a third of them living in a huge Hwange National Park. It is estimated that the wild lions population throughout Africa is about 20,000. However, the number of habitats and human conflicts decreases. Lions, one of the most iconic species of Africa, are currently being violated by the International Nature Conservation Union.
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