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. A 2,900 pound black rhino fatally imapled conservationist Schoeman van Jaarsveld, 58, in South Africa. Getty Images 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. Van Jaarsveld and his team were on a mission to protect rare white and black rhinos from lethal poaching gangs who were known to be in the area.…