Zimbabwe has accused a Pennsylvania doctor of illegally killing a lion in April, as it seeks to extr...

1. Hunt 'n Kill II: New US doctor, another lion, bow and arrow
Zimbabwe has accused a Pennsylvania doctor of illegally killing a lion in April, as it seeks to
extradite a Minnesota dentist who killed a well-known lion named Cecil in July.
Jan Casimir Seski of Murrysville, Pennsylvania, shot the lion with a bow and arrow near Hwange
National Park, without approval and on land where it was not allowed, said Zimbabwe's National
Parks and Wildlife Management Authority.
Landowner Headman Sibanda was arrested and is assisting police, it said.
Cecil strolls around in Hwange
National Park, in Hwange, Zimbabwe. (AP)
Seski, a gynecological oncologist who directs the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at
Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, is a big-game hunter according to safari outfitters and
bow-hunting sites. Kill shots on the sites identify "Dr. Jan Seski" as the man standing next to slain
animals including elephants, a hippo, an ostrich and antelopes such as an impala, a kudu, and a
nyala.
Seski did not respond to messages left by The Associated Press at his home and with an answering
service for his medical practice. The AP also called and knocked on the door at Seski's house, which
is set back among some woods outside Pittsburgh.

2. Zimbabwe's wildlife authority has
suspended the hunting of lions,
leopards and elephants in the Hwange
area, and said Saturday that bow and
arrow hunts can be approved only by
the head of the wildlife authority.
Two other illegal lion hunts also were
recorded last year in Zimbabwe, said
Geoffrey Matipano, conservation
director for the wildlife authority. He
did not provide details on those cases.
Zimbabwe National Parks
spokeswoman Caroline Washaya Moyo
said Seski provided his name and other identifying information for a government database when he
came for the hunt.
"When hunters come into the country they fill a document stating their personal details, the amount
they have paid for the hunt, the number of animals to be hunted, the species to be hunted and the
area and period where that hunt is supposed to take place," she said.
"The American conducted his hunt in an area where lion hunting is outlawed. The landowner who
helped him with the hunt also did not have a have a quota for lion hunting."
Meanwhile, Zimbabwean authorities have said they will seek the extradition of Minnesota dentist
Walter James Palmer, alleging he lacked authorization to kill "Cecil." The lion was lured out of
Hwange park, wounded with a bow and arrow and then tracked down and shot, conservationists
said.
Palmer said he relied on professional guides to ensure his hunt was legal. Two Zimbabwean citizens
were arrested and face charges.
An image on the Melorani Safaris Facebook page, since taken down, showed Seski posing with the
body of a small antelope in 2012, with a caption saying it was killed two days after he shot it with an
arrow. Other captions described how his arrows penetrated organs and split bones.
"This Zimbabwe elephant is the sixth African elephant
shot by Dr. Jan Seski," Alaska Bowhunting Supply
claims in a caption dated September 2014, below a
picture of the doctor posing above the dead beast's
trunk and tusks.
"The arrow was shot quartering into the elephant,
penetrated a rib and one lung, lacerated the heart
and liver, and was recovered in the gut. The elephant
went a short distance and died. With results like this, no wonder Jan is a firm supporter of our Ultra-

3. Magnum Arrow System."
Alaska Bowhunting Supply didn't immediately respond Sunday to a request for comment, and it
wasn't clear how the hunting supply company learned such details about the hunt.
Images of the doctor wearing camouflage and holding high-powered bows match those on Seski's
website, where he wears a suit or hospital scrubs. His address and other identifying information
given by authorities in Zimbabwe matches those of U.S. medical authorities.
A handful of Seski's neighbors said he mostly keeps to himself and that he'd been buying up the land
around his property. Ernest Hahn said Seski put up no-trespassing signs, breaking the rural area's
tradition of people feeling free to cross property lines to hunt.
Hahn said Seski can be "quirky," walking around wearing a low-slung pistol "like a gunslinger," for
example, but he appreciates that his neighbor is protecting land from development.
"It seemed to me everything he does is aboveboard," Hahn said. "I've never seen him done anything
illegal or unsportsmanlike at all."
Seski seemed like a "perfect gentleman" to Stewart Dorrington, who operates Melorani Safaris and
owns a game reserve in neighboring South Africa where Seski hunted in 2012.
"He was a great guy," Dorrington said. "Everything he did was perfectly legal and aboveboard and a
great help to our conservation efforts."
Dorrington said he converted his cattle ranch into a game reserve in the 1980s. He said funds from
trophy hunting of antelope are essential to conserving wildlife.
Dorrington said he received an abusive phone call Sunday; his Facebook page was later closed from
view after people began posting threatening comments.
In Washington, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., announced the "Conserving Ecosystems by
Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act," which would expand import bans to
species proposed for listing as threatened or endangered, as well as those already listed as
endangered.
"The logic is that if you keep killing them, they will become endangered," Menendez spokesman
Steven Sandberg said Sunday.