Harari, Zimbabwe – The murder of a lion involved in a research project in Zimbabwe was convicted by the cup fisherman by wildlife groups, echoing the nefaritudinal state of the so -called Cecil, whose death was met by an American tourist in the same country a decade ago.
Cecil The Lion is located near Kennedy One Water Point in Hwage National Park, Zimbabwe, November 20, 2013.
AP Photo/Sean Herbert, File
The last lion, known as Blondie, was part of the University of Oxford University and wore an AFRICA Geographic, a safari company. Geographical Africa said that Blondi was killed by a fisherman in June near Huang National Park in the country after its temptation from a protected area and in a fishing area near the use of the bait.
After Blondi’s killing became a new massive cry for those wishing to hunt, a spokesman for the National Gardens told Associated Press on Thursday that hunting was legal and that the hunter had the necessary permits. Zimbabwe allows up to 100 black to be caught per year. The cup fishermen, who are usually foreign tourists, pay tens of thousands of dollars to kill a lion and take the head or skin as a cup.
The CEO of Africa Geographic Simon Espley said that the killing of Blondie made “mockery of morals” calling the cup fishermen describing him because he was wearing a clear search collar and was a male education in his prime. The fishermen say they only target the non -advanced lions.
Esley said: “The prominent Blondi collar did not prevent him from displaying it to a hunting agent confirming the blatant reality that there is no lion in safe from the cup hunting rifles.”
Black hunting is divided, even among conservative specialists. Some say that if it is well managed, it raises the money that can be returned to the preservation. Others want to kill the wildlife of sports directly.
Some countries in Africa, such as Kenya, have a commercial hunting ban, others such as Zimbabwe and South Africa allow this. Botswana raised a ban on hunting six years ago.
Tinchi Varu, spokesman for the Parks agency in Zimbabwe, said that hunting money is very important to support the nation’s preservation efforts in South Africa. He defended hunting and said that they often happen at night, which means that the Blondi collar may not be visible.
He said he has no information about Blondi’s temptation from the garden with the bait – it is usually a dead animal – but there “there is nothing unethical or illegal about it for anyone who knows how the lions are hunted. This is how people hunt.”
“Rangers was present. All the papers were in good condition. Collars for research purposes, but they did not make the animal fortified against hunting,” said Varu. He refused to naming the hunter.
In 2015, the killing of Cecil launched an angry anger against Walter Palmer, a dentist in Minnesota and the trophy that attracted Assad from the same national park in Zimbabwe and shot him with the bow before he was followed for hours and finally killed him. Cecil, who was beheaded, skin and prizes, participated in a research project from Oxford University.
The Zimbabwe authorities initially said that they would seek to hand over Palmer to hunting, although this did not happen, while the hunting guide was arrested, just to drop the charges.
The National Parks Agency in Zimbabwe says that the country gets about 20 million dollars annually from the cup hunting, as one hunter spends $ 100,000 per hunt – including local accommodation, employment and tracker.
Zimbabwe is home to about 1500 wild black, with about a third of them who live in the vast Hwnga National Park. Throughout Africa, the lion’s wild population is estimated at about 20,000. However, their numbers decrease due to the loss of habitats and human conflict. Lions, one of the most famous species in Africa, is inserted as weak by the International Federation for Conservation of Nature.
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