Overview
- Ernie Dosio, who was hunting in Gabon’s Lope‑Okanda rainforest on April 17th, was killed when a group of five forest elephant cows with a calf charged.
- Collect Africa, which organized the trip, confirmed the fatal encounter in a brief statement.
- The professional guide survived with serious injuries, with reports saying his rifle was knocked away and lost in the thick brush.
- The hunt targeted a yellow‑backed duiker, and local rules limited the client to a company‑supplied shotgun rather than his own rifle.
- Gabon’s dense rainforests hold a large share of the world’s forest elephants, a powerful species that can deliver sudden defensive charges when surprised at close range.