Africa News
Zim lifts hunting ban─── 08:51 Mon, 10 Aug 2015
Harare - Zimbabwe has lifted a hastily-imposed countrywide ban on lion, leopard and elephant hunting in the wake of Cecil the lion's death, though it remains in force in a limited area.
The ban was imposed on August 2 in the wake of global outrage over the killing of Cecil by a US dentist on an illegal hunt just outside Hwange National Park in western Zimbabwe. A statement from the Zimbabwe Professional Hunters and Guides Association, leaked this weekend revealed that the ban was lifted.
Lion-hunting is still banned in the Antoinette farm that Cecil was killed in in early July, another farm where a second lion was recently illegally hunted, and in two other areas. Zimbabwean hunting officials were not available for comment.
