American dentist, Walter Palmer, kill, Zimbabwean lion,
Cecil
Zimbabwean environment minister says Walter Palmer’s
big-game hunting trip was legal and he could not be charged
Zimbabwe will not charge American dentist Walter
Palmer for killing a prized lion in July because he had obtained legal
authority to conduct the hunt, a cabinet minister has said.
“We approached the
police and then the prosecutor general, and it turned out that Palmer came to
Zimbabwe because all the papers were in order,” the environment minister, Oppah
Muchinguri-Kashiri, told reporters, adding that the American could not be
charged.
Palmer, from
Minnesota, has always maintained that he believes he acted legally. Last month he told the Associated Press and the Minneapolis Star
Tribune that he was stunned to find out his hunting party had
killed one of Zimbabwe’s treasured animals.
“If I had known this lion had a name and was
important to the country or a study obviously I wouldn’t have taken it,” Palmer
said. “Nobody in our hunting party knew before or after the name of this lion.”
Palmer, who has
several big-game kills to his name, reportedly paid thousands of dollars for
the guided hunt.
Muchinguri Kashiri
said Palmer was free to visit Zimbabwe as a tourist but not as a hunter. The
implication was he would not be issued the permits a hunter needs.
Two more people
still face charges related to Cecil’s killing. Both allegedly were involved in using bait to lure Cecil out of his habitat in Hwange National
Park so he could be killed.
Theo Bronkhorst, a
professional hunter in Zimbabwe, is charged with breaching hunting rules in
connection with the hunt in which Cecil was killed. A game park owner is also charged with
allowing an illegal hunt. Both have denied the charges.
Bronkhorst is
expected to appear in a Hwange court on Thursday where a magistrate will rule
on a request by his lawyers that his indictment be quashed.
Palmer, 55, has previously said that the hunt was legal and no one in the hunting party realized the targeted lion was Cecil, a well-known tourist attraction in the park.
Palmer, 55, has previously said that the hunt was legal and no one in the hunting party realized the targeted lion was Cecil, a well-known tourist attraction in the park.
Structure of the
Lead:
Who: Walter Palmer
Who: Walter Palmer
When: July.2015
What: The doctor will not be punished
Why: The
doctor had obtained
legal authority to conduct the hunt
Where: Africa
How: killing a prized lion before
Keywords：
1. prosecutor起訴人
2. allegedly據稱
3. indictment起訴書
4. minister部長
5. magistrate法官
6. targeted針對性的
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/12/zimbabwe-will-not-charge-us-dentist-killing-cecil-lion
To tell a truth, I have no idea what to say about this report. In my opinion, it was just simply an accident. The hunter didn't know who the lion is and how important the lion is, and the tour guide didn't introduce the famous lion at the first time as well. If the guide had done, the whole thing would not happen at all. However, it's not total the guide's fault, and it's difficult for me to tell whom should be to blame. To sum up, I'm neutral to this accident.
回覆刪除If an animal threaten your life, I think it's all correct to counterattack it and protect yourself from being hurt. But in this article, I only see an unilateral violence on animals. No matter this lion is famous or not, it's zero tolerance to take away humans or any other creatures' lives. The hobby or interest of hunt is just take other animals' lives for fun. How ironic! It's just like a modern Colosseum.
回覆刪除Well, I think it's just an accident because the dentist said that he really did not know the lion was an important pride to his country. Objectively, Lion was an animal and we could not control where it go or what it want to do. So, I think it's really don't need to be reported.
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