Killing of Cecil the lion sparks £0.5m in donations to Oxford wildlife researchers

Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, which was studying lion shot in Zimbabwe, has received over 550,000 to fund big cat research

The death of Cecil the lion has sparked donations of more than 500,000 to an appeal founded by a team of conservation researchers.

Cecil, shot last month by an American dentist, was being studied by Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) who set up the appeal to fund future big cat research work.