But photo safari guide killed by lion in destabilized population paid the ultimate price HARARE, Zimbabwe––Zimbabwe environment minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri on October 12, 2015 announced that Minneapolis dentist Walter James Palmer, 55, will not be charged for killing Cecil the lion during an early July 2015 trophy hunt. Cecil had been perhaps the most photographed […]
How the Cecil killing helps Mugabe to squeeze more money out of trophy hunters
Cecil was slain just in time to help Mugabe increase the government cut (See also Killing the most famous Cecil in Zimbabwe since Rhodes of Rhodesia, part one of a series about the Cecil slaying and what it means.) HARARE––Robert Mugabe was already hoping to extract more money from trophy hunters when alleged trophy poachers […]
Killing the most famous Cecil in Zimbabwe since Rhodes of Rhodesia
“I’m a-comin’, Cecil lad!” (See also How the Cecil killing helps Mugabe to squeeze more money out of trophy hunters.) Few people today remember Cecil the puppet sea serpent, who starred from 1949 to 1962 in various incarnations of the satirical “Beany & Cecil” radio and television broadcasts. Nominally produced for children, the “Beany & Cecil” […]