Overview

• South African police have launched a formal inquest into the unprovoked goring of 52-year-old Asher Watkins on August 3 in Limpopo’s Bambisana concession.
• CV Safaris stated that Watkins, a professional hunter and a tracker were pursuing an unwounded 1.3-ton buffalo when it charged at approximately 35 mph and killed him almost instantly.
• The operator has notified Watkins’s ex-wife, Courtney, and their teenage daughter, Savannah, and is assisting other family members both at the lodge and in the United States.
• It remains unclear whether the buffalo was shot by the hunting party or escaped back to its herd following the attack.
• Cape buffalo, often called the “Black Death,” kill an estimated 200 people each year and account for more hunter fatalities than any other African big-game species.