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Baitball Blogger

(51,009 posts) Fri Jul 25, 2025, 09:28 AM Jul 25

Another CEO dies young. This time he may have been one of the good ones.

I don't think his game reserve was the hunting kind, because of the last para.

Millionaire CEO Trampled to Death By His Own Elephant on South African Game Reserve

A millionaire and co-owner of a private game reserve was trampled to death on his own reserve by an African elephant.

39-year-old FC Conradie, who co-owned the luxury Gondwana private game reserve in Mossel Bay on the Western Cape in South Africa, was charged by an elephant at the reserve on Tuesday, resulting in his death, according to PEOPLE magazine.

FC's family and friends are "grieving deeply," but emphasized Conradie's "unwavering commitment to wildlife conservation, community upliftment, and sustainable tourism left a lasting impact on everyone who had the privilege of working with him."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/millionaire-ceo-trampled-to-death-by-his-own-elephant-on-south-african-game-reserve/ar-AA1Je1A2

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Another CEO dies young. This time he may have been one of the good ones. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jul 25 OP

"Game reserve" means the animals were considered game. yardwork Jul 25 #1

If that's the case ... Baitball Blogger Jul 25 #2

I actually have more respect for that than people who eat tortured factory farmed animals. The mucifer Jul 25 #5

Elephants Remember JustAnotherGen Jul 25 #3

Yes. yardwork Jul 25 #4

yardwork

(68,154 posts)

1. "Game reserve" means the animals were considered game.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 09:31 AM

Jul 25

It sounds like a hunting reserve to me.

Hunters - especially wealthy ones - are always taking about conservation. They want to conserve the animals for hunting. It's their game.

Baitball Blogger

(51,009 posts)

2. If that's the case ...

Reply to yardwork (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 09:32 AM

Jul 25

mucifer

(25,340 posts)

5. I actually have more respect for that than people who eat tortured factory farmed animals. The

Reply to yardwork (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:16 AM

Jul 25

animals have space and can lead their lives until they are hunted and killed. Factory farmed animals are tortured their whole lives.

Of course most hunters eat factory farmed foods, too. So there's that.

JustAnotherGen

(37,121 posts)

3. Elephants Remember

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 09:35 AM

Jul 25

yardwork

(68,154 posts)

4. Yes.

Reply to JustAnotherGen (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 09:40 AM

Jul 25

It would be very unusual for an elephant to accidentally trample somebody to death.

That elephant had a reason to kill its owner.

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