War 🇬🇦 US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants - Finally, some good news.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/millionaire-hunter-dies-elephants-gabon

https://archive.ph/09kyJ

An American millionaire big-game hunter has died after being crushed by a group of elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon.

Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting yellow-backed duiker, an antelope species, in the central African country of Gabon when the incident occurred last Friday. While in the Lope-Okanda rainforest, he and his guide unexpectedly came across five female elephants accompanied by a calf.

Originally from Lodi, California, Dosio had built an extensive collection of hunting trophies over the years, including animals such as elephants and lions. He was reportedly a familiar name within the Sacramento Safari Club.

According to the Daily Mail, safari operator Collect Africa confirmed the death of its client. The company also reported that the professional hunter guiding Dosio sustained serious injuries during the encounter.

Reflecting on Dosio’s life, a retired hunter who knew him shared with the UK outlet: “Ernie has been hunting since he could hold a rifle and has many trophies from Africa and the US. Although many disagree with big-game hunting, all Ernie’s hunts were strictly licensed and above board and were registered as conservation in culling animal numbers.”

The same source, based in Cape Town, described the incident as the elephants being “surprised” by Dosio and his guide’s presence.

Dosio was the owner of Pacific AgriLands Inc, a company managing 12,000 acres of vineyard land in Modesto, as well as offering services and equipment financing to wine producers. Officials from the US embassy in Gabon are now coordinating the return of his remains to California, the Mail reported.

Gabon’s forests are known to shelter approximately 95,000 forest elephants, most of the species’ global population, which are considered highly endangered.

Every year, clients of the trophy-hunting industry claim the lives of tens of thousands of wild animals across the world. Legal hunting tours in Africa are popular with some wealthy Americans, including Donald Trump Jr, who was pictured holding a severed elephant’s tail more than a decade ago.

International trophy hunting is a multimillion-dollar industry. In South Africa, estimates for the industry’s worth range from $100m in 2005, to $68m in 2012, and $120m in 2015, according to the EMS Foundation.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

75 is not a bad age to go out tbh. Even.

 

[souschef]

While I do understand that this in the bigger picture ends up benefitting endangered species, I still don't like anyone that would hunt an animal for fun. So there's that

You're absolutely right about that and i really don't get the nigger mindset of simply killing animals for the fun of it

Serves no purpose other than feeding one's sadistic ego, but since it makes PETA people butthurt, retards think it's GUD

 

[LimeRikki]

So long as the elephants that killed him get to live, that's fine then. I actually think it'd be interesting if we gave those kinds of big game hunters deliberately underpowered weapons and no support (no food, no water, no extra ammo, etc), and just let them go loose, man versus animal. We'll see who wins.

Let's film it and monitize it because fuck it who cares.

A couple of posters here it brought up the point that this big game hunting can serve conservation purposes. And that breaks my heart, that we have to do that to protect animals from nogs retards who don't value them. We humans don't appreciate non human animals, and the important roles they play in balancing the earth's ecosystem, enough.

 

[Nurikabe]

>A member of the Hominidae family was fatally crushed during an arrest by Elephantidae authorities; activists allege systemic species-based oppression.

ERNIE WUZ A GOOD BOY HE JUS A CONSERVATIONIST N SHIET. I CAN'T BREATHE!

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

What’s with the Kiwis coming out of the woodwork to endorse animal slaughter? I can hate rich hicklibs AND Africans & jeets for slaughtering majestic animals.

Spare me the conservation bullshit.

You have a very uneducated understanding of conservation. Predation is natural and in many cases necessary to maintain balance in the ecosystem. Hunting an animal to extinction is degenerate and disgusting. This is the default mode for most of the lesser races. Conservation requires deep humility and awareness of your impact on the environment but also a willingness to be a part of that environment.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

What’s with the Kiwis coming out of the woodwork to endorse animal slaughter? I can hate rich hicklibs AND Africans & jeets for slaughtering majestic animals.

Spare me the conservation bullshit.

It was only animal slaughter that allowed humanity to evolve enough so today you could type out this dogshit opinion. Now go suck on a vegan kielbasa faggot.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Its always weird to me how you'd read a story like this on a UK website and all the comments hate hunters. WTF, everyone hunted (except me ) where I grew up. UK people are brain-damaged morons, who don't know where food comes from, I guess.

 

[Veliky]

Its always weird to me how you'd read a story like this on a UK website and all the comments hate hunters. WTF, everyone hunted (except me ) where I grew up. UK people are brain-damaged morons, who don't know where food comes from, I guess.

I understand them a little UK hunters tend to be extremely arrogant and in general just assholes to anyone they come across since they like to larp as nobility, from what I've read fox hunters are the worst in this regard despite fox hunting having been illegal for 20 or so years.

 

[(‿ˠ‿) ԅ(≖‿≖ԅ)]

The alternative to Western hunters isn't the animals living peacefully by themselves, it's the Africans slaughtering them to extinction. The only thing stopping that from happening is the money that Westerners pay them to hunt. They're smart enough to realize that if they kill all the animals then the hunters will stop paying them, but they don't care at all about the animals.

Non-hunting "conservation" charities are all USAID-tier grifters that pay their executives hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and do nothing useful.

Yeah elephants are intelligent enough that I kind of have moral qualms about hunting them, they're not just some retarded potato prey animal like the deer and ducks I've stacked up over my life. That said the extremely high fees paid by elephant hunters go to the high costs of nature conservation in Africa. It's not like in the US or Europe where most people will be like "oh it's illegal to kill this animal because they're endangered? Better not"

They have to hire large amounts of park rangers who are willing to regularly get into gun battles with poachers, and not like Billy Bob on his four-wheeler with grandpappys's deer rifle. Like paramilitaries with AKs and grenades and RPGs who are looking to make bank selling rhino scrotum to the bugmen

 

[YOU'RE TAKING TOO LONG]

Oh hey, I've seen this episode of Tales from the Crypt! Good one!

 

[whatever I feel like]

I understand them a little UK hunters tend to be extremely arrogant and in general just assholes to anyone they come across since they like to larp as nobility, from what I've read fox hunters are the worst in this regard despite fox hunting having been illegal for 20 or so years.

They are actually beloved figures in the countryside since they bring money in, its urban and suburbanites who hate them.

 

[Fount of BadSpeak]

Frankly, any time you go into the wilderness, especially hunting, you accept a certain degree of lethal risk just by the nature of the environment. This is especially true in some safari with true big game, not just elk, bear, and cougar. Also, animals are not nearly as stupid as you think, and they will absolutely recognize a human hunting, even if they don't understand what a gun is, and they will flip their shit in fear because that's what animals do. It's a shame this old timer spooked some elephants, but he knew the risks when he chose to go on that hunt.

These conservationist hunters directly fund the nature preserves that they hunt at, so I personally support their hobby, but the reality is that sometimes hunters die while hunting.

 

[Meat Target]

The alternative to Western hunters isn't the animals living peacefully by themselves, it's the Africans slaughtering them to extinction. The only thing stopping that from happening is the money that Westerners pay them to hunt. They're smart enough to realize that if they kill all the animals then the hunters will stop paying them, but they don't care at all about the animals.

Non-hunting "conservation" charities are all USAID-tier grifters that pay their executives hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and do nothing useful.

They sometimes relocate the wildlife, have fenced and monitored zones, or preemptively remove or dye horns and tusks to make them worthless.

Not to mention that in some places hunting serves a critical role in controlling the population of animals like White Tail Deer which can provide a real hazard to drivers on the road if allowed to breed unchecked.

Wouldn't be an issue if we hadn't spent centuries decimating their habitats. I'm not against hunting for food and to survive. But taking pleasure in killing animals, especially endangered or protected animals, is sick and fucked up.

Visit a national park sometime, it'll get you in touch with your inner Uncle Ted. You'll see firsthand how easy it is for humans to be a fucking blight on God's creation.

What’s with the Kiwis coming out of the woodwork to endorse animal slaughter? I can hate rich hicklibs AND Africans & jeets for slaughtering majestic animals.

Spare me the conservation bullshit.

Nature is the one issue where I become a turbo-hippie. To be a conservative means to conserve. And yet, the vast majority of Righties cheer when the Sarumans of the world ratfuck the wilderness and replace it with urban blight.

Why? Because you think it'll piss off some Just Stop Oil dangerhairs? Those controlled-oppo retards would have no problem with filling in the Grand Canyon and building Section 8 housing over it.

 

[Nurikabe]

Are retards ITT trying to argue this faggot boomer was a "conservationist"? Bro was hunting a yellow-backed duiker (a rare near-threatened species of antelope) on a paid safari. This isn't wasn't some wildlife expert or ecologist doing "what needed to be done for the environment", but some entitled boomer after another trophy who got TRUNKED by Dumbo and his family. As a matter of fact, those elephants are more "conservationists" than this nigger since boomers are more of a threat to our delicate ecosystem than any antelope could be. Good riddance.

 

[Local FloRida-man]

The alternative to Western hunters isn't the animals living peacefully by themselves, it's the Africans slaughtering them to extinction

These animals have survived millions of years just fone, but suddenly they can't survive without millionaires from across the world shooting them in the face. It's just a coincidence that these same millionaires would have both the motive and the means to fudge the books to justify their blueblood hedonism. Purely coincidental.

Conservation requires deep humility and awareness of your impact on the environment but also a willingness to be a part of that environment.

The US is on the literal other side of the planet. This guy was in no way part of the environment. He was, in every sense of the word, an outsider.

The alternative to big game hunting isn't total fauna genocide, its these same boomer big game hunters just funding conservation efforts without all the pathetic tiny dick compensation activities. The same way everyone else does. "Why would they do that?" Because they're conservationists, right? The biggest conservationist around according to some in this thread. But its not about conservation, obviously.

We don't praise opioid addiction for funding the medical industry, we don't praise prostitution for keeping women employed, but for some reason this specific moral failing still gets good PR among the 110 IQ crowd.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

These animals have survived millions of years just fone, but suddenly they can't survive without millionaires from across the world shooting them in the face. It's just a coincidence that these same millionaires would have both the motive and the means to fudge the books to justify their blueblood hedonism. Purely coincidental.

The US is on the literal other side of the planet. This guy was in no way part of the environment. He was, in every sense of the word, an outsider.

The alternative to big game hunting isn't total fauna genocide, its these same boomer big game hunters just funding conservation efforts without all the pathetic tiny dick compensation activities. The same way everyone else does. "Why would they do that?" Because they're conservationists, right? The biggest conservationist around according to some in this thread. But its not about conservation, obviously.

We don't praise opioid addiction for funding the medical industry, we don't praise prostitution for keeping women employed, but for some reason this specific moral failing still gets good PR among the 110 IQ crowd.

You are right, but millions of years doesn’t include the technology and medical advances of the last two hundred. The population of Africa and the world has exploded, and with that pressure to encroach on animal ecosystems has only increased. Conservation works to ensure the masses who absolutely do not give a fuck about anything but themselves and their benefits does not wipe out wildlife or their habitats even if the cost is some shit I don’t really like.

I don’t like reading about elephants dying. I read how they mourn, how they remember. I also know how, without conservation, they won’t be around to remember at all.

But ultimately the fact of the matter is 90% of the people celebrating the death of a big game hunter are exactly the kind of people who believe women can have dicks, nuclear energy is evil, and love importing the third world so I dunno, I find it very easy to say if they think the current system is wrong and bad, it probably isn’t and they never actually researched it or have any alternatives.

 

[Meat Target]

You are right, but millions of years doesn’t include the technology and medical advances of the last two hundred. The population of Africa and the world has exploded, and with that pressure to encroach on animal ecosystems has only increased.

If only the Eternal Anglo has just picked his own damn cotton, mined his own damn gems, and stayed on his rainy shithole island.

 

[Dysnomia]

Just another guy trying to make his wee wee feel bigger. And he ended up getting curb stomped by elephants.

How the fuck do people enjoy killing things? What kind of joy is that? Yeah I'm gonna fly to Africa and have fun killing elephants. Woohoo! I don't get it. Go do something productive with that cash.

Are retards ITT trying to argue this faggot boomer was a "conservationist"? Bro was hunting a yellow-backed duiker (a rare near-threatened species of antelope) on a paid safari. This isn't wasn't some wildlife expert or ecologist doing "what needed to be done for the environment", but some entitled boomer after another trophy who got TRUNKED by Dumbo and his family. As a matter of fact, those elephants are more "conservationists" than this nigger since boomers are more of a threat to our delicate ecosystem than any antelope could be. Good riddance.

Rich fucks with too much time on their hands.

 

[Hitman One]

Its always weird to me how you'd read a story like this on a UK website and all the comments hate hunters. WTF, everyone hunted (except me ) where I grew up. UK people are brain-damaged morons, who don't know where food comes from, I guess.

Nobody sensible has an issue with hunting deer, for example. This is very common in Scotland where responsible deer stalking is both part of the culture and an important way of keeping number sustainable.

Some old faggot boomer who spends his time shooting endangered animals (spare me the conservation bullshit) getting annihilated by a based elephant should be celebrated.

 

[grump]

Good job.
Next time trample the tour guides too.

While I do understand that this in the bigger picture ends up benefitting endangered species, I still don't like anyone that would hunt an animal for fun. So there's that

What’s with the Kiwis coming out of the woodwork to endorse animal slaughter? I can hate rich hicklibs AND Africans & jeets for slaughtering majestic animals.

Spare me the conservation bullshit.

You're absolutely right about that and i really don't get the nigger mindset of simply killing animals for the fun of it

Serves no purpose other than feeding one's sadistic ego, but since it makes PETA people butthurt, retards think it's GUD

Are retards ITT trying to argue this faggot boomer was a "conservationist"? Bro was hunting a yellow-backed duiker (a rare near-threatened species of antelope) on a paid safari. This isn't wasn't some wildlife expert or ecologist doing "what needed to be done for the environment", but some entitled boomer after another trophy who got TRUNKED by Dumbo and his family. As a matter of fact, those elephants are more "conservationists" than this nigger since boomers are more of a threat to our delicate ecosystem than any antelope could be. Good riddance.

People who oppose this hunting. Are you opposed to all hunting for sport?

If not. Why is this bad but other sport hunting is okay?

Because the animal is 'majestic'?
WTF does that mean?

Because the animal is rare and possibly might go extinct?
Allowing legal hunts helps with that. 90% of the threat these exotic rare animals face is from locals killing them and chopping down their habitat and 9% is from distant overseas buyers looking to grind them into boner pills. I just find it hilarious that redditors and social media users are hyperfocused on hating a handful of white dudes who are among the few actually helping. You guys are actually part of the problem.

Because elephants are 'intelligent'?
Well again he wasn't hunting elephants. And even if he was. Pigs are pretty intelligent too. Are elephants proven to be significantly more intelligent than pigs? At what point should we cut off hunting because an animal is 'too intelligent'? I mean obviously for the sake of stability in our civilization around human level is a necessity but elephants clearly aren't anywhere near that level. I think the intelligence argument is the strongest one but we need to do more than just go off vibes.

Also the elephant just stomped him to death when he wasn't even going after them. Another human would be punished for this but people are cheering for the animal to go free. Animals are free to sport hunt as they please which they absolutely do and nobody bats an eye.

I am a big believer that humans should have no less rights than animals in the same situation (within practical constraints). I don't really get people who demand rights and equal treatment and empathy for animals, but then also want to shield animals from consequences that would come to a human doing the same thing. With rights come responsibilities. Humans giving some animal that rolls around in the dirt, essentially a superior status to themselves is the ultimate cuck move.


If you oppose all hunting for sport. Do you oppose hunting for food?
If not? Why not? I mean very few people in the world actually need to hunt for food anymore.

Are you vegans?
If not? Why not. How is current industrial farming more humane than hunting? Oh I get it. you think you are superior because some illegal immigrant kills and packages the meat for you and you can just pick it up sight unseen at the grocery store without dirtying your delicate little hands.

As for vegans. Well I have a ton to say about you but this post is already getting too long.

So long as the elephants that killed him get to live, that's fine then. I actually think it'd be interesting if we gave those kinds of big game hunters deliberately underpowered weapons and no support (no food, no water, no extra ammo, etc), and just let them go loose, man versus animal. We'll see who wins.

Let's film it and monitize it because fuck it who cares.

A couple of posters here it brought up the point that this big game hunting can serve conservation purposes. And that breaks my heart, that we have to do that to protect animals from nogs retards who don't value them. We humans don't appreciate non human animals, and the important roles they play in balancing the earth's ecosystem, enoug

The ecosystem is what its inhabitants make of it. Long ago the life of this world completely destroyed the previous ecosystem due to the oxygen they produced and created a brand new one. Jawed animals destroyed the previous ecosystem and led to a completely new one. Plants by breaking down the rock surfaces creating the first soils destroyed one ecosystem and built a new one. Now humans are creating a new ecosystem of their own. Hippie environuts inadvertantly exalt the humanity they hate by seeing it as something apart from nature. But it can just as easily be considered the next in the line of succession.

These animals have survived millions of years just fone, but suddenly they can't survive without millionaires from across the world shooting them in the face. It's just a coincidence that these same millionaires would have both the motive and the means to fudge the books to justify their blueblood hedonism. Purely coincidental.

The US is on the literal other side of the planet. This guy was in no way part of the environment. He was, in every sense of the word, an outsider.

The alternative to big game hunting isn't total fauna genocide, its these same boomer big game hunters just funding conservation efforts without all the pathetic tiny dick compensation activities. The same way everyone else does. "Why would they do that?" Because they're conservationists, right? The biggest conservationist around according to some in this thread. But its not about conservation, obviously.

We don't praise opioid addiction for funding the medical industry, we don't praise prostitution for keeping women employed, but for some reason this specific moral failing still gets good PR among the 110 IQ crowd.

If only indignation could fund the sanctuaries to the same level the hunters do.