A South African anti-poaching champion was gored to death by a 2,900 pound rhinoceros after caring for the animal during a morning patrol.
Schoeman van Jaarsveld was surveying the Samara Karoo Reserve, located in the heart of South Africa’s Great Karoo region, when a double horned rhino burst out of cover and fatally impaled him, The US Sun reported.
The tragic, freak accident took place on Thursday around 10:30 a.m. local time.
By the time emergency crews rushed to the scene, van Jaarsveld, 58, had already died from his injuries.
The 58-year-old conservationist was an anti-poaching champion and ran his own armed private security firm, Milk River Security, that protects rhinos from hunters, according to The Sun.
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