Thirteen-year-old Cecil, a lion had been studied by scientists from Oxford University as part of a study that has run since 1999. According to the conservationists, Cecil was wearing a GPS collar to track his movements. Sources claim that Cecil had become a tourist attraction for visitors to the park.

In July 2015 an American hunter, paid US$50,000 (£32,000) to a professional hunter to enable him to kill a lion.

They are alleged to have lured Cecil off the protected park site, wounded him with a bow and arrow, stalked him for 40 hours, and finally shot him.

Cecil was then skinned and had his head removed. 

The hunt was not legal per the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, who stated that Cecil is the 23rd or 24th lion that has been collared as part of the study and later been killed. 

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