Millionaire Big Game Hunter Trampled to Death by Elephants
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech While big game hunting for food is an ancient practice, it’s more recently turned into a sport. It’s a contentious topic, with some arguing that big game hunting is key to ongoing conservation efforts, while others say it poses a critical threat to biodiversity, forcing certain species to extinction. It can also be extremely dangerous. Take Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old millionaire who owned a California vineyard and who along with his guide was trampled to death by a group of five elephants while hunting antelope in Gabon, Africa. The schadenfreude on social media is hard to miss. “Oh dear, how sad,” wrote one user. “Hope the elephants didn’t hurt their feet.” But while it may sound like Dosio had it coming, a retired game hunter in Cape Town who said he knew him told the Daily Mail that he was a “very well-known and popular hunter in the US and in Africa and a very keen conservationist and …
