Court drops charges against professional hunter over Cecil the lion
Richard Cooke, the professional hunter accused of killing Xanda, also reportedly killed the cubs’ brother in 2015.
Mr Cooke handed Xanda’s electronic collar back to researchers.
Andrew Loveridge, from the Department of Zoology at Oxford University, told The Daily Telegraph: “I fitted it last October. It was monitored almost daily and we were aware that Xanda and his pride was spending a lot of time out of the park in the last six months, but there is not much we can do about that.”
Cecil the lion’s cubs
He added: “Richard Cooke is one of the ‘good’ guys. He is ethical and he returned the collar and communicated what had happened.
“His hunt was legal and Xanda was over 6 years old so it is all within the stipulated regulations.”
“Cooke also killed Xanda’s brother in 2015, he was only about four years old then. Xanda is still a young father at 6.2 years old and has several young cubs.
“We can’t believe that now, two years since Cecil was killed, that his oldest Cub Xanda has met the same fate.
“When will the lions of Hwange National Park be left to live out their years as wild born free lions should…?”
Cecil was found beheaded and skinned near Hwange National Park in 2015 and authorities said Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minneapolis, paid a $55,000 (£35,000) bribe to wildlife guides to allow him to shoot the lion with a crossbow.
He was forced to abandon his dental practice for weeks amid the outcry over the killing
I’ll believe there is some hope for the planet, and for the human race, when I read about Richard Cooke’s assassination. Why this man is still breathing air is a mystery to me. Is there no one who will rid the planet of this meddlesome turd?
Why can’t these egocentric pieces of crap try to cooperate and avoid collared animals? And why do people charged with protecting them constantly make allowances for it? Is this man getting a perverse pleasure out of killing off members of the entire pride? He is not one of the ‘good guys’. He’s a pimp catering to rich white guys.
If that one man has not leant anything after Cecil, then he is not fit to be part of humanity. He needs to be hunted down and I am sure the hunt has already started.
Exposing the Big Game 
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where can we find this sick psychopath!!
I’ll believe there is some hope for the planet, and for the human race, when I read about Richard Cooke’s assassination. Why this man is still breathing air is a mystery to me. Is there no one who will rid the planet of this meddlesome turd?
Why can’t these egocentric pieces of crap try to cooperate and avoid collared animals? And why do people charged with protecting them constantly make allowances for it? Is this man getting a perverse pleasure out of killing off members of the entire pride? He is not one of the ‘good guys’. He’s a pimp catering to rich white guys.
This vomit bag deserves a new kind of disease that is incurable, disfiguring and disabling and does not kill right away!
If that one man has not leant anything after Cecil, then he is not fit to be part of humanity. He needs to be hunted down and I am sure the hunt has already started.
I hope it isn’t an American, but I’ll bet it is.
Sadly, it is an American. How I long for the fall of the Roman Republic.
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