A professional hunter identified by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority as Theo Bronkhorst and his co-defendant, farm owner Honest Trymore Ndlovu, are accused of helping Walter James Palmer hunt the lion. Zimbabwean police said they are looking for Palmer, the American dentist who reportedly paid $50,000 to track and kill the animal.
Zimbabwean prosecutors’ documents accuse Bronkhorst of failing to “prevent an unlawful hunt.” Court documents say Bronkhorst was supervising while his client, Palmer, shot the animal.
During the nighttime hunt, the men tied a dead animal to their car to lure the lion out of a national park, said Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force. The American is believed to have shot it with a crossbow, injuring the animal. The wounded lion was found 40 hours later, and Palmer shot it dead with a gun, Rodrigues said.
Using bait to lure Cecil the lion is deemed unethical by the Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe, of which Bronkhorst is a member. The association has since revoked his license.
“Ethics are certainly against baiting. Animals are supposed to be given a chance of a fair chase,” Emmanuel Fundira, the association’s president, said on Tuesday. “In fact, it was not a hunt at all. The animal was baited and that is not how we do it. It is not allowed.”
Palmer, a dentist living in the Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie, said in a statement that he was unaware the lion was protected, relying on local guides to ensure a legal hunt.
“I had no idea that the lion I took was a known, local favorite, was collared and part of a study until the end of the hunt. I relied on the expertise of my local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt,” Palmer said in statement through a public relations firm.
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Murder is always unethical. Dr. Palmer is a sick monster, a serial killer. I hope he gets what he deserves
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Ugh… Y’know I wonder what exactly hunting is and what a hunter is?
Because apparently according to other “ethical hunters” they don’t kill or hurt animals at all, hunters and their supporters talk as if they throw tea parties with the animals (as if the animal likes being killed or as they put it “harvested”). Commonly there is talk of how they share a bond with the creature they stalk and kill, if you can’t get any closer to a serial killer mentality…
It is psychopathy, believing in an emotional attachment that is one sided/not there – a fallacy thought up by an unstable mind to justify the voice in the head that claims (regardless of all evidence against it) that the one who kills is still a rational and good person. Insanity is not always absolute, there are some brilliant talents and intelligent minds mixed inside the heads of humainty’s most notorious monsters. Charles Manson was a gifted song writer, Ed Gein was a reliable and loving babysitter, Adolf Hitler was a great artist… Yet would you call these people good? Likewise, Mahatma Ghandi thought black people were a lesser race, Walt Disney was a racist and Mother Teresa was a sadistic religious fanatic.
Some argue that they do it to survive. But that is immediately blown out of the water by their location, what they have on hand and access to services; so they choose to kill and call it survival despite never having that live or die necessity. Living off the land as it is called has absolutely nothing to do with it, it is not a survival skill but a superfulous choice made by the individual to take from an ecosystem that can not naturally facilitate the demands of humanity.
You can’t say you respect something that you take the life thereof, that’s just stupid. I have yet to hear one believable line of respect for the lives taken that isn’t just narcissistic drivel claimed as respect for another.