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'''Mopane''' was a well-known 12-year-old male lion and head of his pride. He was shot by a bowhunter on 5 August 2021 on a hunting concession bordering the unfenced Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe.<ref>https://africageographic.com/stories/trophy-hunters-kill-another-breeding-hwange-lion-mopane/</ref> Reports suggest that, like [[Cecil - lion|Cecil]], he was lured out of the park using bait before he was killed by a foreign hunter.<ref>https://www.bornfree.org.uk/news/mopane-the-lion</ref> | '''Mopane''' was a well-known 12-year-old male lion and head of his pride. He was shot by a bowhunter on 5 August 2021 on a hunting concession bordering the unfenced Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe.<ref>https://africageographic.com/stories/trophy-hunters-kill-another-breeding-hwange-lion-mopane/</ref> Reports suggest that, like [[Cecil - lion|Cecil]], he was lured out of the park using bait before he was killed by a foreign hunter.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210925011116/https://www.bornfree.org.uk/news/mopane-the-lion</ref> | ||
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Mopane was a well-known 12-year-old male lion and head of his pride. He was shot by a bowhunter on 5 August 2021 on a hunting concession bordering the unfenced Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe.[1] Reports suggest that, like Cecil, he was lured out of the park using bait before he was killed by a foreign hunter.[2]