- Cecil the Lion, 13, was one of the stars of Hwange National Park
- The lion was shot with an arrow by a hunter, outside the park’s border
- Badly wounded, the lion was left for two days before he was killed
- The hunter skinned Cecil the Lion and cut off the head for a hunting trophy
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With his striking mane and relaxed manner around the cameras, Cecil the lion was one of the stars of Zimbabwe’s biggest national park.
Now park rangers and safari lovers have been left devastated after the much-loved lion was horrifically killed by a hunter.
After wounding the great beast with an arrow, the depraved hunter spent two days tracking down the injured lion before killing the animal with a rifle. After skinning the corpse, the lion’s noble head was hacking off and taken by the hunter as a hunting trophy.
The death of the 13-year-old big cat has left conservators deeply worried for the safety of several lion cubs, who are now living unprotected in the park.
Exposing the Big Game 
There are things despicable beyond words, including the dregs of humanity capable of that lion’s suffering and death. I would have to include those who justify his actions.
We are the worst species on the planet. But, one day we will be the victims of climate change, and we deserve it. The world will be a better place once we are gone, and the rest of nature will pick up and carry on after the blip of time that we have destroyed the planet.
Tears that people could be so cruel to him, sorry dear lion for what humans did to you.
You are right, Ida. I only hope that Homo sapiens can go down without taking all of Nature with them. I fear this will not be the case.
Today, saw the California forest infernos, on the “news” with horrendous flames spreading over all the mountain ridges. It looked like the end of the world. All the news readers talk about, are how many buildings were burned. Who gives a shit? What about all the wild lives in those infernos? Where will the survivors go? No one talks about it. At the rate of fires now, these poor wild animals will have little habitat left.
May Cecil’s murderer meet a most painful death himself. The killer should be hunted down.
i couldn,t agree with you more, but what should happen is a law making hunting illegal and if caught a huge fine and confiscation of property, i myself would rather see them buried!
I ll do it with pleasure !
Of course, you will get those that will defend this scum-sucking scumbag saying he/she ‘donated’ a ‘portion’ of the money he/she spent to kill the lion on charity and conservation. Yeah, right… money won’t bring the dead back to life, nor will it help the cubs he/ berieved their protector and it certainly won’t calm the rage people that this pathetic selfish waste of air feel for him/her.
If these psychopaths actually gave a crap about conservation, they would
A) Donate their money in full to conservation efforts
and
B) Not kill wildlife
Animals have enough to deal with in their daily lives without some egotistical nimrod interfering.
King lion CECIL, big story, just one single question:Who is the protected murders, Theo Bronkhurst, his son Zane or spanish king Carlos son ? What is answer?
This animal was practically tame – reminds me of Romeo, the wolf that some mean-spirited as**ole decided to kill, because he could. That’s the trouble with human nature – we cannot stand to see anything good and have to set out to ruin and destroy it. It used to be that we could say ‘not all people are like that’, but it seems in modern times to may are.
Thus makes me want to cry, feel sick to the stomach
Don’t you just love humans?
Worse predators on earth…… humans !!
The late Naturalist, author, philosopher, and activist, John A. Livingston, in his “Reader: Including the Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation and One Cosmic Instant: A Natural History of Human Arrogance,” is one of the most important reads for those of us fighting to save The Wild. Here’s a quote from Livingston’s interview by the great activist, Farley Mowat (now, also deceased):
This quote applies to any wildlife killing, but I am particularly making the case for what is happening to native wildlife here in the U.S.–especially in the western states, where the last of the great expanses of public lands (crucial to remaining native wild populations) exists. The greatest enemy to wolves, coyotes, bobcats, prairie dogs, wild horses, mountain lions, bears, birds of prey–you name them–is the ubiquitous Livestock Industry, grazing domestics everywhere in National Forests, wilderness, on wildlife refuges, grasslands, & BLM.
“We (humans) are imprisoned by rational arguments. This is the part that hurts. You hear the most impassioned, eloquent arguments of all reduced down to nature’s utility to man. Even the aesthetic is a utility. Leave it for future generations to utilize–that’s what is boils down to. Somebody has to have the guts to fight for nature simply because it’s…(there).
It’s so sad to see conservation groups falling into that trap, becoming instruments of the very organizations & government (agencies) they are trying to oppose.”
–John A. Livingston
I, personally, feel it is time for those of us who see the extreme urgency of what is happening to Nature and her Wild Beings, to stop working with any groups who are compromising with The Livestock/Hunting Industries in any way:
1. Drop memberships with them, and tell them why, repeatedly. If such groups are paying ranchers for their “alleged livestock losses” demand that they stop. The ranchers do not need money from wildlife people who are trying to save wolves, coyotes & other wild animals, who are under constant attack because ranchers demand their slaughter on public lands, where these wildlife need to live.
2. Please read about Public Lands Ranching, and learn, (if you need to) about the ecosystem and wildlife holocaust happening on western public lands. http://www.foranimals.org.
http://www.westernwatersheds.org/resourcesnational-public-lands-grazing-campaign/
Now more than ever, we must work to save western public lands, for native wild animals, due to Climate Change. Domestic livestock do not belong. I have personally witnessed the destruction of these lands, which are now Domestic Feed Lots. Nature cannot exist in this scenario.
The same thing is happening in Africa. Most of the “National Parks” are hemmed in by increasing human population, with cities and livestock right up against the park fence lines.
Shocking!!! No respect for life
At least the African national park is concerned about the welfare of the lion – despite the lion being lured out of the National Park and killed on private land, because he was wearing a collar and a member of the park’s wildlife whoever killed him can still be held accountable, unlike here in the US where collared wolves are lured and shot and nobody does f8*k-all but a cursory investigation and a slap on the wrist. I hope they get this as***le and I’ll bet it’s an American or European:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cecil-zimbabwe-lion-killed_55b5ca3ce4b0224d8832a327?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green§ion=green