Seski is a big game hunter like Dr. Walter Palmer.
By Raif Karerat
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WASHINGTON, DC: After furor surrounding the death of the internationally popular lion “Cecil” forced his killer, Minnesota dentist Dr. Walter Palmer, to go into hiding, the government of Zimbabwe has accused another American of illegally killing a different lion in April.
Jan Casimir Seski, a doctor from Murrysville, Pennsylvania, shot the lion with a bow and arrow near Hwange National Park, without approval and on land where it was not allowed, alleged Zimbabwe’s National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority on August 2.
Seski, a gynecological oncologist who directs the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, is a big-game hunter according to safari outfitters and bow-hunting sites cited by Pittsburgh’s ABC affiliate, WTAE.
Zimbabwe National Parks spokeswoman Caroline Washaya Moyo said Seski provided his name and other identifying information for a government database when he came for the hunt.
“When hunters come into the country they fill a document stating their personal details, the amount they have paid for the hunt, the number of animals to be hunted, the species to be hunted and the area and period where that hunt is supposed to take place,” she informed the Associated Press. “The American conducted his hunt in an area where lion hunting is outlawed. The landowner who helped him with the hunt also did not have a have a quota for lion hunting.”
Meanwhile, on Aug. 30, the White House said it would review a public petition to extradite Walter Palmer after more than 100,000 people signed it, reported the BBC.
The Zimbabwean authorities have likewise stated they will pursue Palmer’s extradition, alleging he lacked authorization to kill Cecil. The lion was lured out of Hwange park — where he was protected by statute — wounded with a bow and arrow, and then tracked down and shot with a gun.
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