However, he added that the largest decline of animal populations across Africa had come because of a loss of their habitat, rather than sport hunting. Gammon, whose family have lived in Zimbabwe since 1892, said he was 'not hugely in favor of lion hunting,' in particular, because of the 'disturbance' to the animal's social hierarchy. Professor David MacDonald, the director of a team at Oxford University that has studied Cecil since 2008, told NBC News on Monday that the outrage that began on social media was 'unique.I don't think this has happened before.' Walter James Palmer's dental office in Bloomington, Minnesota, on Wednesday. A 2009 report from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature said it had produced 'mixed results.' A woman writes on a sign outside Dr.

Zimbabwe is seeking is extradition.Ī second American, Pennsylvania doctor Jan Seski, was named by wildlife officials on Sunday as having killed another lion in April, allegedly without a quota or permit.Ĭonservation groups are divided about whether trophy hunting is beneficial to wildlife. He reportedly paid $50,000 to hunt the animal with a bow. Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer found himself facing global blacklash after it emerged he shot and killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe. 'I can tell you for a fact that there are huge swaths of Africa that are currently being devoted to wildlife that will very, very quickly be overrun by people and cattle, and in the end the wildlife is the loser.' 'My big fear is if we have a knee-jerk reaction to this incident and we ban hunting outright,' he said.

Lion Hearted by Andrew Loveridge