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Monday, August 3rd, 2015

American doctor accused of illegal lion hunting in same park Cecil was killed

Author:     Alix Culbertson
Source:     Express (U.K.)
Publication Date:     00:30, Mon, Aug 3, 2015
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Stephan:   What I find particularly notable about the disgusting murder of these magnificent animals is the response to these acts becoming public. This is an example of a change in gestalt arrived at not by government direction, the passage of a law, or even a media campaign. Rather it is the result of quotidian choice, an expression of change collection intention. We used to make "Great White Hunter" movies of professional killers of African animals, and people have been killing lions back to Pharaoh's time. Now, it is no longer acceptable behavior a critical consensus has emerged on this topic. For that reason I think this is good news.
Cecile the Lion

Cecil the Lion

Cecil the lion was brutally killed three months after another lion in the same Zimbabwean park

The second American, Jan Casimir Seski of Murrysville, Pennsylvania, was allegedly involved in an illegal lion hunt in April in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, the same park where the world’s most famous lion was killed last month resulting in a global outcry.

The cold-blooded killer is a gynecological oncologist who is a director at the Centre for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital – and is also a highly active big-game hunter.

Pictures of him standing next to slain animals on hunting websites reveal he has killed many majestic animals, including elephants, impala, hippo, ostrich, kudu and a nyala – both types of antelope.

This afternoon the National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said Zimabwean landowner, Headman Sibanda, was arrested in the April case and is assisting police with their investigation as they look into the American who gave the final blow.

Authorities in Zimbabwe yesterday revealed they have started the legal […]

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