FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inboxSick British trophy hunters have killed 50 lions in the past five years as they help drive them to extinction, campaigners warn.Despite a global outcry after US dentist Walter Palmer shot lion Cecil in Zimbabwe in 2015, the cruel practice continues.Campaigners are now urging Prime Minister Boris Johnson to keep his manifesto promise to ban trophy hunting imports – amid fears lions are now on a “fast-track to extinction”.They claim 6,000 have been killed since 2015 – 50 of them slaughtered by British hunters.Author Eduardo Goncalves said: “British hunters shot another 50 ‘Cecils’.
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