Lawyers

• Endangered Lion Species Get Legal Protection From U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Under Endangered Species Act

  Two rare lion subspecies get listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Act.

• Obama’s administration set to protect lions worldwide; Extending Endagered Species Act

  Barack Obama and his administration enacts protection for lions. The White House is expected to extend the Endangered Species Act protections for two breeds of lions in Africa.

• Zimbabwe will not charge U.S. dentist for killing Cecil the lion

  Zimbabwe will not charge American dentist Walter Palmer for killing its most prized lion in July because he had obtained legal authority to conduct the hunt, a Cabinet minister said on Monday, angering conservationists.

• Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwe lion to return to work Tuesday: report

  The Minnesota dentist whose killing of Zimbabwean lion Cecil sparked global outcry from animal lovers has maintained that the hunt was legal and says he plans to work on Tuesday, U.S. media reported.

• Zimbabwe lifts hunting ban imposed after killing of Cecil the lion: U.S. report

  Zimbabwe has lifted a ban on big game hunting outside a national park 10 days after imposing the moratorium following the illegal killing of the country's most prized lion, NBC News in the United States reported on Monday.

• After Cecil outcry, major U.S. airlines end trophy hunter shipments

  Three U.S. airlines have banned the transport of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino or buffalo killed by trophy hunters, in the latest fallout from the killing of Zimbabwe's Cecil the lion last month.

• Zimbabwe calls for extradition of Cecil the lion's killer

  The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a "foreign poacher" who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said on Friday.