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Mopane was killed on Aug. 5 just outside a national park.ByJoseph Guzman | Aug. 16, 2021https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.475.0_en.html#goog_638107508Volume 20%

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• A lion named Mopane was well known by local tour guides and visitors of Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe.
• The U.S. Humane Society said the 12-year-old lion may have been lured out of the park with an elephant carcass.
• “It is shameful that the U.S. has the distinction of being the world’s biggest importer of hunting trophies,” the Humane Society said.

A male lion named Mopane was allegedly killed by an American hunter outside of Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, not far from where Cecil the lion was shot down in 2015.

The U.S. Humane Society saidthe 12-year-old lion may have been lured out of the park with an elephant carcass on Aug. 5 and was killed on land adjacent to the protected area, the…