{"id":288926,"date":"2026-04-28T00:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288926\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:40:19","slug":"ca-millionaire-big-game-hunter-killed-by-elephant-on-african-safari-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288926\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Millionaire, Big-Game Hunter Killed By Elephant On African Safari: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

LODI, CA \u2014 A Northern California business owner’s hunting trip in Gabon \u2014 central Africa \u2014 took an unexpected turn when the 75-year-old man was reportedly<\/a> gored by an elephant.<\/p>\n

Ernie Dosio, who owns Pacific AgriLands, a farm management company, was on a $40,000 guided hunting trip with “Collect Africa,” when the incident happened on April 17, the New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dosio, who lived in Lodi, was with two other people when they unexpectedly encountered a herd of five female elephants and one calf when the adults charged multiple times. One of the elephants gored Dosio with its tusks, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n

The elephants suddenly emerged from “dense undergrowth” in the rainforest before they began charging at Dosio and his guide, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n

Collect Africa confirmed the death of its client. The hunter who guided Dosio survived, but sustained serious injuries, Daily Mail reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On its website, Collect Africa, based in Coral Gables, Florida, is described as an “Your Species Collecting Concierge.”<\/p>\n

Pictures of Dosio’s home showed an collection of wildlife trophies.<\/p>\n

Family friends said Dosio went on the hunting trip hoping to kill a yellow-backed duiker. The yellow-backed duiker is known for its normally shy and timid behavior and usually dwells forests.<\/p>\n

Trophy hunting is a controversial practice around the world, which conservationists and wildlife preservationists have criticized, attributing the practice to disrupting wildlife population and adversely affecting the environment. <\/p>\n

Gabon’s forests are also home to many African forest elephants, which is critically endangered<\/a>, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LODI, CA \u2014 A Northern California business owner’s hunting trip in Gabon \u2014 central Africa \u2014 took an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-288926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}