By Jay Syrmopoulos Zimbabwe, Africa – One of Africa’s most famous lions, Cecil, was killed on July 1 by a American tourist who apparently paid a safari owner $55,000 to come to Zimbabwe for the opportunity to kill a lion.
Authorities in Zimbabwe are searching for the American tourist, Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist. Palmer is reported to have lured the 13-year-old out of the protected national park within which he lived, using food, and then shoot the lion with a bow and arrow, according to an exclusive report by The Telegraph.
According to a report in The Guardian:
The 13-year-old lion was wearing a GPS …read more