Read From Article: The incident occurred around July 6, with a professional hunting outfit reportedly luring Cecil outside the boundaries of the protected reserve using a dead animal as bait.
Lured him OFF the protected reserve. The guy and those who enabled him are scumbags.
I call Bravo Sierra.
The article is sourced from an anti-hunting advocate — if you can’t hear the axe grinding in the background, go get a hearing aid.
Now, snark aside, from reading between the lines and reading some other sources, the hunter may well have been “had” by the landowner and the guides. And there’s even a remote chance he might have been in on some shady deal, but I very much doubt it.
Consider: the customer hails from Minnesota, 7 time zones away from the location of the hunt. He contracts with a reputable guide, and a landowner, pays a fee for the hunting license, goes through customs with his his bow (try that sometime), and after all of that he expects...a poached hunt? Really? Why go through all the rigamarole if you want to break the law? Why not just get on a plane, pay off some local schmuck off the books, and, you know, shoot, shovel and shut up?
Does not pass the smell test. Unless you think there’s something magical about lions, and they should Never Be Hunted. In that case, we have nothing to discuss, and one of us is on the wrong forum.