The 4,700-square-kilometre 1,814-square-mile park is one of three straddling the borders of northern Benin and neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger... READ MORE›
Bumi Hills Foundation 4 12 Ben's gunshot wound The elephant had a septic wound which was 4cm in diameter and 10cm deep... READ MORE›
Individual elephants such as these should be accorded their true value as a National Heritage and should be off limits to hunting... READ MORE›
African governments have also condemned, some with increasing anger, Western moves to ban trophy hunting... READ MORE›
Every year, around 100 people and 40 to 50 elephants are killed as a result in India, for example... READ MORE›
US uproar over death of protected animal forces Walter Palmers practice to close, as two others attend Zimbabwean court to face poaching charges... READ MORE›
David Macdonald, from the same group, referred to Jericho and Cecil as brothers in a statement Thursday... READ MORE›
Between 2010 and the 2013, the last year for which data is available, more than 100 such lion trophies were imported to France... READ MORE›
The Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority also released a photograph of Jericho that it said was taken Sunday morning, the Associated Press reported... READ MORE›
Trophy hunting is often difficult to detach from an era of unquestioned white privilege in Africa, Mr. Dorrington, 56, said... READ MORE›
Zimbabwe - along with Namibia, Tanzania and South Africa - is listed as 'positive', ie with a sustainable enough population of lions to accommodate hunting... READ MORE›
Her first showed her crouching over the prone form of a massive kudu a kind of African antelope with a white-striped body and spiralling horns... READ MORE›
A Game of Thrones editor, recently killed by a lioness in South Africa, was raising money to combat poaching... READ MORE›
It is currently occupied by Honest Ndlovu - who appeared in court alongside Mr Bronkhorst on Wednesday, but has not been charged with illegal hunting... READ MORE›
Muchinguri's remarks come as the White House faces mounting pressure to address a petition for Palmer's extradition to Zimbabwe... READ MORE›
There were less drastic but still substantial declines in the East African countries where lions have traditionally thrived... READ MORE›
And he said that the one positive side of Cecil's death was that it was going to raise important questions about conservation and hunting... READ MORE›
Walter James Palmer of Eden Prairie Minnesota has been named by Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force as the shooter of Cecil a 13-year-old prized lion... READ MORE›
Lion numbers are in steep decline across Africa, but trophy hunting is only partly responsible for the long-term losses, say conservationists... READ MORE›
Australia is banning the import and export of hunting trophies made from the body parts of lions... READ MORE›
The death of Cecil has attracted much attention because people feel strongly about big interesting animals like lions... READ MORE›
Dangerous animals escaped georgian capital's zoo after heavy flooding which has killed at least 12 people... READ MORE›
President Obama said the US would continue to co-operate with Kenya and other East African nations to counter the threats from Islamist extremists groups... READ MORE›
There are up to 600,000 African elephants but about 35,000 a year are killed by poachers... READ MORE›
East African Lions from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition on display in the new U.S. National Museum, 1915... READ MORE›
Animals listed as threatened or endangered under the act are protected from being imported into the US as sport hunting trophies... READ MORE›
More African elephants are being killed for ivory than are being born, despite poaching levels falling for the fourth year in a row in 2015... READ MORE›
Kenya alone imports around 100 000 tonnes of second-hand clothes shoes and accessories a year many of which were originally donated to charity shops in the west... READ MORE›
Video Cecil the lion killed The African safari hunting trade by numbers... READ MORE›
The size of South Africa's leopard population remains a mystery... READ MORE›
We were watching Cecil move out across the park towards the hunting concession, recalls Macdonald... READ MORE›
I don't often talk about hunting with my patients because it can be a divisive and emotionally charged topic, he wrote... READ MORE›
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