Hwange National Park

Remember Cecil the lion? Hunted in Zimbabwe with a bow and arrow by Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer in July 2015, Cecil could just be the most famous lion ever to walk the plains of Africa. Celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Jimmy Kimmel, Ellen DeGeneres, and Ricky Gervais took Cecil’s name to millions on social media, while petitions demanding action against hunting received more than a million signatures.