Cecil, the most famous lion in Zimbabwe, was shot in an allegedly illegal hunt last month after being lured from a reservation by an American dentist.
But Ian Jones, the section leader of large carnivores at Paradise Wildlife Park, Broxbourne, said it was good to see the issue in the public eye.
He said: "It's one of those hard things. Canned hunting throughout Africa is incredibly rife, especially in South Africa."
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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