A lion has been shot dead after straying from a Kenyan national park and injuring a man outside Nairobi.

A Danish zoo has publicly dissected a one-year-old male lion, pulling out organs to show a few hundred people, including children, in an event met outside Denmark with criticism and online protests.

Zimbabwe will not charge American dentist Walter Palmer for killing its most prized lion because he had obtained legal authority to conduct the hunt, a cabinet minister said.

The Minnesota dentist who killed Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe has returned to his clinic after weeks out of the public eye.

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A lion charged and killed a safari guide who was leading a group of tourists in the same national park in Zimbabwe that was the home of Cecil the lion who was killed by a bow hunter in July.

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The big three US airlines have all banned the shipment of hunting trophies following the killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwean wildlife authorities have suspended the hunting of lions, leopards and elephants in an area favoured by hunters following the killing of a lion popular with tourists.

A dentist who has become the target of worldwide outrage for hunting and killing a protected lion in Zimbabwe has advised his patients to seek care elsewhere as he remained in hiding amid protests at his US clinic.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called for him to be hanged.

Walter Palmer from Minnesota is reported to be 'quite upset over everything”.

Cecil, Zimbabwe’s most famous lion, was lured out of Hwange National Park where he was then shot with a bow and arrow.

Reports of a lion roaming a US city have put police and others on the lookout.

When you're driving through a pride of lions, LOCK YOUR DOORS.