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Two years after Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy-hunter in Zimbabwe, prompting global outrage, his son may have met a similar sad end. Xanda, a six-year-old lion with several young cubs, was reportedly shot on a trophy hunt. He is said to have died outside the Hwange National Park in northern Zimbabwe. The lion had been fitted with an electronic tracking collar by Oxford University researchers.
The BBC's Africa Correspondent, Andrew Harding, reports that at the age of six, Xanda was old enough to be legally targeted by big game hunters. These individuals, many from the US, UK and South Africa, pay tens of thousands of pounds for the deadly pursuit - thereby funding the staff who protect other wildlife in the National Park.
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Cecil the Lion's Son Shot and Killed (Legally)
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(Score: 3, Informative) by nobu_the_bard on Friday July 21 2017, @12:23PM (1 child)
Trophy hunting is an important industry in this region, and provides a lot of the money needed for conservation efforts. It is not in itself a bad thing. If some dentist wants to spend his money to legally hunt some rare animal, fine. Lots of worse things he could have spent it on. The money he spends will go to ensuring the survival of the species as a whole.
The problem is the guides that picked the wrong targets. The industry is going to be in big trouble if they keep screwing up and having celebrity animals killed off. In the case of Cecil, the guide Theo Bronkhorst (eventually) admitted guilt, though I think the case was dropped because he'd been found to have followed the law in the region. It wasn't technically illegal to hunt Cecil and he had followed correct procedure. They probably need to figure out some way to blacklist certain individuals from being hunted, if only for PR purposes, rather than counting on the guides to make those decisions.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 21 2017, @12:32PM
Eh, not hunting an individual creature for PR purposes is no better than hunting one for PR purposes, really.
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