HALF a decade after Cecil the lion s death sparked international outrage, the Oxford University team which monitored him for years has revealed his lasting legacy. The animal was being studied and tracked by the university s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) as part of a long-term study when he was killed by an American hunter in 2015. The death of Cecil, who was a popular sight in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, home to the Ngweshla pride, led to donations of more than £750,000 to the WildCRU. Dr Andrew Loveridge, director of WildCRU’s Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme, said: Cecil was one of the many lions whose lives we have studied in intimate detail over the last 20 years.