Posted on 10/12/2015 11:28:23 AM PDT by conservative98
The American dentist who sparked worldwide outrage in July when he killed Cecil — Zimbabwe’s most beloved lion — will not be charged with any crime because the hunt was perfectly legal, authorities said Monday.
Walter Palmer, 55, had “all (his) papers in order” when he tracked the rare black-maned big cat and took him down with a bow and arrow just outside Hwange National Park in the Western part of the African country, according to Reuters.
Environment Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri told local media that Zimbabwean authorities had conducted an investigation in part with the Prosecutor General, which concluded that the Minnesota dentist was indeed hunting legally like he had long claimed — and he had no idea that the lion he had killed was one of the country’s biggest tourist attractions.
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nothing about letting the animal suffer for 24 hours before being shot?
I still think trophy hunting is lame but I'm not going to put myself in the business of telling this guy what he should like, what he should do with his spare time, or how a country should manage their wildlife. If that country determined that his part in this was legal, I'm satisfied with that.
Zimbabwe doesn’t want to scare off hunters who bring them cash.
“took him down with a bow and arrow”
Yikes...too close for my comfort.
But-but-but, they loved him enough to give him a name, CNN said so! /s
That name doesn’t sound very African. Who gave him that name? Some anglo park ranger, I bet!
my 26 yr old son made me sit through this movie last week....as with any movie from the 70’s it plodded boringly towards a nothing ending...its redeeming value being this scene early in the film....what a tremendous yawn
I guess only the doctor made the proper payments to the proper investigator during the investigation.
KILL BABIES NOT ANIMALS!!
They do not have to arrest him. They’ve already ruined the guy’s life.
I am no hunter, but jeeze, how the hell was he supposed to know the lion had a name. Did it have a collar and a tag?
Man eating lions are killed many times a year in Africa. Man is NOT the top of the food chain there.
Stupid Americans.
If Planned Parenthood got caught selling puppy parts they’d be shut down in 48 hrs.
honestly, I think you are spot on.
I actually think it was some Oxford researchers who had it tagged. No kidding. I think that’s how “Cecil” got his name!
#TwitterLynchMobFail
If only “Animal Rights Activists” cared as much for the unborn as they do for animals than we might be on to something
True...so true...
Huh? I'm going out on a limb, here, and suggest that the overwhelming majority of folks in the disaster area known as Zimbabwe have more important things on their minds than "Cecil" ...
F Cecil!
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