Cecil the Lion:Zimbabwe FINALLY bans trophy hunting after 1million sign petition

[zenitzz]

ANIMAL lovers calling for justice for Cecil the Lion have been boosted after Zimbabwe suspended hunting around its biggest game reserve.
Wildlife authorities have halted the hunting of big cats and elephants around Hwange National Park.

It came after more than one million people signed a petition calling on the African country to act after much-loved Cecil was brutally killed by American dentist Walter Palmer.

The dentist allegedly lured the big cat outside of the park in Hwange - in which he was protected - and then wounded him with a bow and arrow, before tracking him for 40 hours, shooting him dead and skinning him.

Outraged animal lovers flooded an online petition set up to urge Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to stop authorities issuing permits to kill endangered animals

Read more: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/596077/Cecil-the-Lion-Zimbabwe-bans-trophy-huntingone-million-sign-petition

[bryant.coleman]

You guys are thinking with your heart, and not with your brain. Trophy hunting actually benefits conservation. In most cases, trophy hunters pay $5,000 to $100,000 for a license to kill a single animal. This money, is in turn used to combat illegal poaching, there by saving the lives of millions of wild animals. If we ban trophy hunting, then it will result in even more animals getting killed.

[Wilikon]

You guys are thinking with your heart, and not with your brain. Trophy hunting actually benefits conservation. In most cases, trophy hunters pay $5,000 to $100,000 for a license to kill a single animal. This money, is in turn used to combat illegal poaching, there by saving the lives of millions of wild animals. If we ban trophy hunting, then it will result in even more animals getting killed.

Yep.

[Possum577]

I love that Zimbabwe is trying to extradite him to get him to answer to the charges filed against him in that country.

I don't understand the allure of killing animals like this. Clearly the "fees go to conservation" doesn't make it better, it merely offsets/nuetralizes what the hunter takes.

The "hunt" isn't a thrill, waiting in a bush for animals to walk by can't be thrilling...sounds awfully boring. There should be some sport involved.

What I don't understand is why this one lion is the trigger that gets a bunch of people to stand up to this activity that's been going on for DECADES? I'm not saying that just because it's going on for a long time it can't change but what's so special about now to get people so upset to act? What's the catalyst? Is it just the personification of a lion or is it something more?

[Snail2]

You guys are thinking with your heart, and not with your brain. Trophy hunting actually benefits conservation. In most cases, trophy hunters pay $5,000 to $100,000 for a license to kill a single animal. This money, is in turn used to combat illegal poaching, there by saving the lives of millions of wild animals. If we ban trophy hunting, then it will result in even more animals getting killed.

That's more or less true, but luring an animal out of a national park and then even failing to kill it quickly with minimal suffering isn't something what should go without any reaction. And a week later the same thing happened with an other lion on the same place. (The death of these two lions could lead to the death of 6 lion cubs as well.)
BTW "Zimbabwe suspended hunting around its biggest game reserve", so not everywhere and not forever just around the reservation area, for a limited time.

PS.: "more or less true" because of only a fragment of that money used to go to the wildlife reservations.

[omahapoker]

You guys are thinking with your heart, and not with your brain. Trophy hunting actually benefits conservation. In most cases, trophy hunters pay $5,000 to $100,000 for a license to kill a single animal. This money, is in turn used to combat illegal poaching, there by saving the lives of millions of wild animals. If we ban trophy hunting, then it will result in even more animals getting killed.

That is correct. Most of these parks only survive with this kind of donation. And mostly the animals shot would have been shot anyway because too many are there.

These parks can't survive without that. I'm interested to know if all these persons, that had not more to do than sign, would tip these parks enough money to survive. I mean they wanted it that way. Now poacher will roam around.