🕯️ LEGENDS GARDEN
🦁 Cecil
African lion · Forever: Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, 2015
Lives in Legends Garden
A study lion, collared and tracked by Oxford researchers for years, and the most photographed animal in his park. He was lured off protected land and killed by a trophy hunter in July 2015. The global reaction changed airline policy on trophy transport and pushed trophy hunting into mainstream argument.
What they do
Raises his head and roars, the black-fringed mane bristling wide.
The unbothered king of a park full of tourists. Famous before he was famous.
Lore
- ★He wore a GPS research collar, which is how his final movements were reconstructed
- ★Several major airlines banned the transport of hunting trophies in the aftermath
- ★He was around 13 and had fathered many cubs in the park
- ★The Oxford research unit that studied him still runs the programme today
Helping the real one
💛 Support Cecil via WildCRU, University of OxfordThe research unit that collared and studied him for years This opens their own official page. Money never touches this site.
Where this comes from
- National Geographic Cecil died amid controversy: what happened since ↗
- CBS News Famed lion, known as Cecil, hunted and killed in Africa ↗
- Wikipedia Killing of Cecil the lion, July 2015 ↗
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