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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @08:08PM
If we prevent hunting lions, all these places will shut down and stop breeding lions. Good in the short term, probably not in the long term. An animal which credibly threatens humans, and is amenable to being hunted (unlike, e.g., mosquitos), will not do well without another use.
The west can screech all it likes about lions being hunted, but so long as they pose a threat to the locals it'll do fuck all. Either we help their economy develop until they're rich enough to not fear lions, or we allow the hunting of bred lions.
I am of course assuming they're bred for this use, as if they're wild I don't see a reason to pay a guide several myriad pounds to drive one around.