US Aims To Protect Lions Through Endangered Species Act

The White House has decided to place lions in Africa under the protection of the US Endangered Species Act.

The move will set a higher bar for hunters who want to bring lion trophies back to America, and comes five months after a Zimbabwean lion named Cecil was controversially shot by a man from Minnesota.

Here's our US correspondent Lorna Shaddick.

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