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20th July 2017
06:59pm BST

"Richard Cooke is one of the ‘good’ guys. He is ethical and he returned the collar and communicated what had happened. His hunt was legal and Xanda was over six years old so it is all within the stipulated regulations."The reaction to the death of Cecil was incredibly powerful, and resulted in the hunter essentially being run out of his home-town and forced to close down his dentistry business there. At the centre of the consternation of the issue lies with the fact that, while big game hunters can pay over £50,000 to hunt the animals and have their heads cured and mounted and sent to their homes, over 70 percent of the funds used to protect Zimbabwe’s wildlife and catch poachers is sourced from the revenue gained from these professional hunters.
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