Big Game Hunter Luciano Ponzetto Dead at 55

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Game Hunter Loathed By Animal Activists Fall to His Death While Shooting Birds.


Ponzetto, a veterinarian who received media attention after posing with a photograph of a lion he had killed, fell to his death during a hunting trip in Italy.

On 13 December 2016, the tabloid The Sun published an article reporting the death of Luciano Ponzetto, a 55-year-old veterinarian who drew the ire of the Internet in November 2015 after posing for a photograph with a lion he had killed:

A big game hunter who sparked worldwide fury when he posed next to a lion he had killed has died after falling 100ft down a ravine while shooting birds.

Vet Luciano Ponzetto, 55, received death threats and hate mail after he posted the snaps of him with the lion on social media last year.

He insisted he had done nothing wrong but the controversy forced him to step down as the medical director of a kennel business after being slammed for shooting Cecil the lion despite working with animals.

Officials say he was out hunting with pals when he slipped on ice and fell down the ravine at Colle delle Oche in hills above the Italian city of Turin.

While several media outlets reported on Ponzetto's death, the circumstances of his demise (a veterinarian infamous for big game hunting photographs, who died during a hunting trip) were too surreal for some to immediately believe. 
However, the report is genuine. News about Ponzetto's death was first reported by Italian outlets such as Corriere Della Sera and Torina Today on 10 December 2016. According to those reports, Ponzetto was "chasing prey" when he slipped on ice and fell more than a dozen meters into a deep ravine:

As he often did, Ponzetto left early in the morning for a hunting trip with a friend in the valley of the Rio Giassetto. The accident occurred at an altitude of 2,200 meters in the valley of the Colle delle Oche, above Pianprato. The vet, who was well equipped, being a decent climber, lost his balance and fell tumbling into a deep ravine a few dozen meters. 
Police and mountaineers found his body after about an hour and a half of searching, and say that he appeared to have died instantly.
Social media sites immediately picked up on his death and described it as “karma”.

One wrote: “I don’t quite see how this man could have worked as a vet and then 
happily gone out and killed animals.

“He should have had more respect.”

An Italian police spokesman said: “We were called by the mountain rescue services 
who had been alerted to the incident by someone who was out with him.

“His body was recovered by helicopter and taken to a local hospital.

“It looks like he slipped and fell when he was out hunting.

“He died instantly and there was nothing that could be done.”

The case drew comparisons with that of legendary Cecil the Lion who was shot dead by an American game hunter in Zimbabwe last year.


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