Cecil the Lion

I know this isn’t book related, but I’d like to discuss a serious point today. As most people know, Cecil, a 13-year-old male Southwest African Lion of the Hwange National Park, Matabaleland North, Zimbabwe, who was being studied and tracked by Oxford University was shot and killed by an American recreational big-game hunter, Walter Palmer. Or, more specifically, Walter Palmer lured Cecil off the reserve, wounded him with compound bow, tracked him for 40 hours, and shot him dead with a rifle. Palmer then proceeded to skin and decapitate Cecil, leaving the rest of his carcass for researchers to find.