minnesota dentist killed cecil. facing a media storm on facebook and yelp palmer temporarily closed his practice and has gone underground. now he could face the law. zimbabwean officials it was orchestrated to make sure sure of the success. reporter: if guilty of poaching they could spend ten years in one of the most notorious prisons. their lawyers say they are innocent but palmer claims he is, too. blaming it all on his local guides. but cnn has learned through court documents that a hunter with the same name age and from the same town as palmer admitted to lying to u.s. authorities in 2006 in the illegal killing of a black bear in wisconsin. palmer s lawyers could not be reached and a spokesman said he has no information on that case.
extradition proceedings can be notoriously slow as zimbabwe has a treaty with the united states. pressure is mounting. more than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for palmer to be sent to zimbabwe to face the law. brooke cecil was the dominant lion in that pride and had more than a dozen young cubs. conservationists worry that a rival lion could come in and kill cecil s cubs. we know that at this stage they are okay but their future could be very bleak indeed. brooke? david mckenzie thanks so much. now to ed leafavandera who is following the reaction. there was a plea from the u.s. authorities for palmer to contact them. we know that has happened in some form or fashion through a representative of the dentist? what was said there? it s interesting because when we spoke yesterday it was more
we will never compromise! extradite palmer! you have all of these protesters camped out in the parking lot calling for his extradition and in some cases calling for his life. zimbabwe officially released this message to u.s. officials, turn palmer over. unfortunately, it was too late to apprehend the foreign poacher as he had already absconded to his country of origin. we are therefore, appealing to the responsible authorities for his extradition to zimbabwe so he is accountable for his illegal actions. and then there is another layer to this. u.s. senator robert menendez will ban hunting trophies
that one can hire, for example, in zim baub beewee, that apparently you are supposed to trust and make these legal kills. my question too, one of the questions would be at the end of the day, as a hunter do you not have to be responsible for your own actions? absolutely. i think it s anything even people who don t hunt you go on a vacation take a trip, somewhere that you are not used to being, everyone would look to reviews and the best information we can find before we make those decisions. is it plausible that something could have happened out of a hunter s control, you know not even mr. palmer s case specifically? sometimes that can happen. but i know myself and the other hunters that i know that go on trips, we want to look and gather the most information that we can ahead of time and that s the hunter s responsibility.
than just a plea. it was the u.s. fish & wildlife service openly wondering why it had taken the dentist so long to reach out to the fish and wildlife service. we were told late yesterday afternoon a representative of dr. palmer has reached out to the u.s. fish & wildlife department of law enforcement. we have gone back to clarify who this representative is. is it a lawyer? the fish and wildlife service refuses to answer and give any more details beyond this statement only to say that the investigation is ongoing. they told us yesterday that the department of justice is involved now. so very serious situation and, as you heard, in david mckenzie s report, the zik zimbabwean government says he is just as responsible as those