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Originally Posted by Rockjockey
Nothing was illegal with the hunting of Cecil as a lion outside of the park........but hunting him without a quota and removing the tracking collar so you could claim to harvest him on a property with an open quota is illegal....... ie. poaching. Shoot a ram with an ear tag outside Jasper all is good. Shoot that ram inside the park and drag him over the boundary to gut him not so much.
If all info so far is correct and it was poaching we should all (anti and pro hunting camps) be calling for swift and just punishment. Acts like this put our passion into a very undesirable light that only fuels the sentiment against us as hunters.
This story is still developing if anyone cared on this board to look into. No longer is it a Spaniard but an American Dentist.......we should wait and see what shakes out.
RJ
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Are you allowed to hunt at night there? Yahoo article states a dead animal was tied to their vehicle and lion was shot in the dark....