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The GPS collar kept pinging for hours after Cecil vanished

The GPS collar kept pinging for hours after Cecil vanished

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A GPS collar pinged as Cecil left Hwange National Park, then fell silent with the device abandoned kilometers off course - how did that happen?

The GPS collar kept pinging for hours after Cecil vanished

In this episode, we lay out the timeline and evidence around a famous lion’s final movements and the GPS data that tracked him. We trace the collar’s signals, the park boundaries, and the legal questions that followed, and ask what those pings reveal about where responsibility begins and ends.

Person: Cecil
Location: Hwange National Park, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
Date: July 2015
Organization: Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU)
Case: Criminal charge of failing to prevent an illegal hunt against guide Theo Bronkhorst

- The collar transmitted coordinates every two hours and suddenly stopped after Cecil left the park.
- Researchers located the GPS collar lying in the open bush, kilometers away from where Cecil’s movements had last placed him.
- WildCRU had been tracking Cecil for years as part of a 62-lion study that logged range, kills, and survival.
- Of 34 recorded lion deaths in the study, 24 were caused by legal, fee-paying sport hunting on private land.
- Zimbabwe’s hunting system depends on clear boundaries and permits, and investigators questioned whether those lines were crossed on the night Cecil disappeared.

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