{"id":306815,"date":"2026-02-19T21:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306815\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:21:14","slug":"cecil-the-lion-and-the-dentist-review-this-engrossing-often-hard-to-watch-documentary-exposes-the-dark-industry-of-trophy-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306815\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist\u2019 review: This engrossing, often hard to watch, documentary exposes the dark industry of trophy hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Film details the cowardly methods used by a local hunter and a US dentist, who paid $50,000 for the privilege of killing a 13-year-old lion\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cecil the lion was shot dead with a bow and arrow by Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer in 2015. Photo: Channel 4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/if70745_Cecil (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cecil the lion was shot dead with a bow and arrow by Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer in 2015. Photo: Channel 4<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The term \u2018trophy hunting\u2019 is a misnomer. When Cecil the lion was killed with a bow and arrow by Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer in Zimbabwe in 2015, prompting a worldwide wave of anger and disgust, it wasn\u2019t a hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was a slaughter, carefully arranged by local hunter Theo Bronkhorst so that Palmer was never in any danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Film details the cowardly methods used by a local hunter and a US dentist, who paid $50,000 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,9617],"class_list":{"0":"post-306815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-pat-stacey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}