It seems a conservation group in Zimbabwe is considering mounting Cecil the Lion's head in a case and displaying it in Hwange National Park where the lion was killed last month.

Apparently, Cecil's head was cut off after U.S. dentist Walter Palmer shot him to death with an arrow on July 1. Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said Cecil's head was found in Theo Bronkhorst's home, one of the co-accused in the case.

The death of the lion made headlines around the world, prompting Palmer to go into hiding.

BBC learned through Rodrigues that the initial plan was to send the lion's head from Zimbabwe to South Africa and then to the United States, so Palmer could claim it.

However, the police seized it from Bronkhorst's home on July 7. Bronkhorst was a guide on the illegal hunt that Palmer paid for.

"The police have it all now and they are using it as evidence," Rodrigues told BBC. "But we are going to try and get the authorities to release so it can be mounted in the Hwange National Park as a memorial."

"We can put it near the entrance so people can pay tribute to him. We are just waiting for everything to die down."

The Task Force might launch a campaign to raise funds for the mounting of Cecil the Lion's head, according to Rodrigues. "Once the dust had settled," they would ask the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority about the plan.

He believes that mounting the lion's head in a case might bring tourists back to the park, claiming that Cecil was "iconic".

"He was a tourist attraction and I hope we can get the tourists back," Rodrigues said.

In related news, the co-accused in the killing of the lion, Theo Bronkhorst, maintained he did nothing wrong.

"I do not feel I have done anything wrong," Bronkhorst told NBC News on Tuesday, a day before he was to stand trial in Zimbabwe. "This has been a very stressful time for me and my family. We have been pulled into something we are not happy with."

He was released last week on $1,000 after pleading not guilty to a charge of failing to prevent an illegal hunt.

Cecil had been part of an Oxford University study since 2008 and wore a tracking collar, something Bronkhorst purportedly said he knew nothing about.

He told The Telegraph that he and Palmer were "devastated" upon discovering that Cecil the Lion was protected, and he reiterated that, "We would never shoot a collared animal".