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Posted on July 29, 2015July 22, 2019

On Cecil the lion, and whether trophy hunting really does help conserve the species

Trophy hunting has been around an awful long time, and for that entire time lions have been the most prized trophy of all. If it hunting lions is conservation, then it is the longest running conservation project that I know of, and, given the current state of lion populations, a somewhat unsuccessful one at that.

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