BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – A Minnesota dentist who went on a guided bow hunting trip for big game in Zimbabwe said that he had no idea the lion he killed was protected and that he relied on the ...

Palmer had a permit to hunt but shot the animal outside the ... Palmer is believed to have shot and wounded the lion with a crossbow. The wounded lion was found 40 hours later, and the ...

Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, is said to have paid $54,000 to bow-hunt Cecil, a magnificent, black-maned, 13-year-old lion who lived in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park and was well known to ...

allowing Palmer to shoot Cecil with a compound bow from the hunting blind, according to Loveridge’s book, and the lion was killed between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. on July 1, 2015. "This was an easy ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota dentist who went on a guided bow hunting trip for big game in Zimbabwe said that he had no idea the lion he killed was protected and that he relied on the ...

Killing Cecil with a firearm would “render the trophy ineligible as a bow-hunt record.” Loveridge suggests Palmer hoped Cecil would die from the initial arrow, which explains why the lion ...

Zimbabwe officials say the shooting of the second lion with a bow and arrow in April occurred on land off-limits to hunting. Americans appear to make up the largest number of foreign hunters who ...

Two years to the month after Cecil the Lion was killed in a controversial hunt in Zimbabwe, one of his sons has also been shot and killed in a legal trophy hunt, ringing similarities to the death ...

The killing of Cecil the lion five years ago caused international ... Palmer doesn’t have the trophy of his other big bow hunt, Cecil, whose head and body were taken by Zimbabwe police.

He had to know that baiting the lion was unethical if not illegal; that it was risky to bow hunt at night and would cause a major black eye for all of his profession, their clients and ethical ...

Linda Park, who works undercover in the captive lion-hunting industry, writes: “Cecil was left in agony for 11 hours after he was shot with a bow. “There was another lion recently, Mopane ...