The American dentist, who faced global backlash earlier this summer after he killed beloved Cecil the Lion, has spoken out for the first time ever to tell his side of the story and to announce that he plans to return to work on Tuesday.
A group of four U.S. senators are banding together to ask Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to speed up her review of an Endangered Species Act rule they hope will help protect and preserve the African lion.
The safari guide accused of luring Cecil the lion out of a Zimbabwean wildlife reserve, so that an American hunter could kill the animal, said on Tuesday he had no second thoughts about his actions.
Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe's National Park was lured out of the park and shot by Minnesota dentist Walter James Palmer. Palmer paid $55,000 to do this.
