A LEGENDARY lion has been lured away from the sanctuary of his game reserve and shot dead by a bloodthirsty trophy hunter. Tragic Blondie was fitted with a GPS collar by research experts from ...

The lion known as “Blondie” was taken sometime during the week of June 29 by a travelling hunter who was being guided by a professional hunter who is a member of the Zimbabwe Professional ...

Blondie, a collared and well-known lion from Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, was tragically killed by a trophy hunter who paid a substantial fee. Lured from the park with bait over several weeks, his ...

Blondie, the five-year-old lion, had been fitted with a GPS collar by researchers from Oxford's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit just three months ago to help support conservation ...

The killing of a collared lion involved in a research project in Zimbabwe by a trophy hunter has been condemned by wildlife groups, echoing the infamous case of a lion called Cecil whose death at the ...

Zimbabwe allows up to 100 lions to be hunted a year. Trophy hunters, who are usually foreign tourists, pay tens of thousands of dollars to kill a lion and take the head or skin as a trophy.

To catch you up to speed, Blondie was reportedly a five-year-old lion in Zimbabwe that was known to have spent time in Hwange National Park. The male lion, which had been fitted with a GPS collar for ...

Zimbabwe is home to approximately 1,500 wild lions, with around one-third of them living in the vast Hwange National Park. Across Africa, the wild lion population is estimated at around 20,000.