Bucking against international outrage over the killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe, professional hunters argue that their industry follows strict rules aimed at preserving wildlife and supporting ...

Cecil had for years been the most famous lion in Hwange National Park, but when he strayed beyond park boundaries recently, a trophy hunter took him down. An immensely popular lion known as Cecil was ...

A Zimbabwean academic, who assisted Oxford University researchers in tagging Cecil the lion killed last month by American Walter Palmer, says the big cat’s death has been a blessing in disguise as ...

A lion that was being tracked by Oxford University researchers in western Zimbabwe has been killed by a trophy hunter, in what one wildlife campaigner called a 'harrowing echo' of Cecil the Lion's ...

July 30 (Reuters) - The killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe by American dentist and trophy hunter Walter Palmer is being investigated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to see if it was part of a ...

Two nonprofit conservation groups in Zimbabwe are telling distinctly different stories about a lion that's seen as an ally of Cecil, the popular 13-year-old animal whose death at the hands of an ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota dentist whose killing of Cecil the lion fueled a global backlash emerged Sunday for an interview in which he disputed some accounts of the hunt, expressed agitation at the ...

Channel 4 has set a February 19 premiere date for a feature documentary about how the killing of Africa’s biggest lion exposed tensions between hunters, safari operators, and conservationists. Known ...

HWANGE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Two Zimbabweans who were paid $50,000 by an American hunter who killed 'Cecil', the southern African country's best-known lion, arrived in court on Wednesday to face ...