PETITION CLOSED
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/821/738/351/demand-justice-for-cecil-the-lion-in-zimbambwe/#sign
- author: Ruth McD
- target: Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe
- signatures: 198,641
300,000
we’ve got 198,641 signatures, help us get to 300,000
On July 1, Cecil the lion, one of the most famous animals in one of Zimbabwe’s national parks, was shot by a bow hunter. The hunter was a dentist from Minnesota who paid $55,000 for a hunting permit before shooting the 13-year-old big cat.
Please sign the petition to demand justice for Cecil! Tell Zimbabwe to stop issuing hunting permits to kill endangered animals!
The hunters reportedly lured Cecil out of Hwange National Park, where it is illegal to kill wildlife, at night. Cecil was shot with a bow and arrow. The wounded lion didn’t die until 40 hours later, when the hunters tracked him down and shot him with a rifle. They then skinned and beheaded him. The Zimbabwe Professional Hunters and Guides Association confirmed that Cecil was killed outside the park on private land, and an investigation is ongoing into the legality of the hunt.
The legend of Cecil started about three and a half years ago, when the then-10-year-old lion was kicked out of his pride, beaten by younger, more powerful males. Hunters argue that as loners, prideless male lions aren’t as important to sustaining lion populations.
But Cecil wasn’t finished. He soon teamed up with another lone male named Jericho, and the lions regained control of the region’s two prides, one of which consists of three lionesses and seven cubs under seven months old.
The loss of Cecil most likely spells the end of Jericho’s reign, and the possible loss of the pride’s cubs. Jericho, as a single male, will be unable to defend the two prides and cubs from new males that invade the territory. This is what we most often see happening in these cases. Infanticide is the most likely outcome.
Please sign the petition to demand justice for Cecil! Tell Zimbabwe to stop issuing hunting permits to kill endangered animals!
Exposing the Big Game 
Sometimes you just gotta love the internet, and the British press. The entire world frowns upon this. Safari Club International must be going apoplectic! Groups like them protect hunters, and so they act with impunity in America, so this man thought he was untouchable everywhere. They are even defending the use of ivory in pistol handles, and are blocking legislation to ban ivory, that’s how bad they are! It wasn’t hard to make the connection that it most likely was an entitled American who did this. We, or at least our leadership in this country, do not respect wildlife, and certain special interests know they have them in their pocket.
I hope this man is extradited to Zimbabwe and spends a long time in prison there. I agree with one of the other posters that his tax records, etc. should all be examined for fraud also. This person is turning out to be quite a low-life between poaching, and harassing women. He shows brilliantly the connection.
And I should add that anything that puts a burr under the saddle of groups like that nefarious Safari Club International gives me no end of happiness. You can usually find them somewhere around in these cases, and this time is no different.