Kenya’s Ivory Burn: The Story In Pictures ○

The burning, a tradition started in 1989 when former president Daniel Arap Moi personally set fire to 13 tonnes of ivory, is the largest decimation .... The record-setting burn is meant to send a message to the world that ivory has no value and that ... Still, Kenya's burned ivory represents just 5 percent of what is currently held in ... Photograph by Carl De Souza, AFP, Getty Images ... Read more stories about wildlife crime and exploitation on Wildlife Watch.. Story and Photos by Christopher Chávez I held it in my hands; a long ivory tusk weighing about one hundred pounds. It was yellowed and .... The story of a tusk – 28KG / VOI RIVER / 30/5/14 gives a very moving account of one of the elephants whose tusks ended up among the 10,000 .... Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has begun the largest ivory burn in history, setting ... In pictures: Kenya stages largest ivory burn in history.. An earlier picture with this article, showing a security officer throwing a tusk on a pile of burning ivory, was .... We were informed that 105 tons of ivory and 1.35 tons of rhino horn were set on fire. According to the Kenya Wildlife Service, it was done to send .... Story highlights. Kenya is destroying more than $170 million worth of illegal elephant tusks and rhino horn; It's the largest destruction of its kind .... The practice of burning ivory goes back to July 1989 when Kenya's then-President Daniel arap Moi ignited a pile of 12 tonnes of elephant tusks .... Carl de Souza, AFP file picture| The pyres in Nairobi will contain ... But Kenyan media, who have covered multiple ivory burns ever since the .... Kenya's president Saturday set fire to 105 tonnes of elephant ivory and more than a tonne of rhino horn, believed to be the largest stockpile .... "This is the largest stockpile destroyed in Africa," said Al Jazeera's Catherine Soi, reporting from Nairobi. IN .... The Kenya government destroyed more than 100 tons of elephant ivory in the largest burn of its kind ever .... The mass burning involved 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than 1 ton of rhino horn, believed to be the largest stockpile ever destroyed. Photos: A basket of rhino horn, left, burns next to pyres of ivory on April 30, 2016. It took Kenya's Wildlife Services 10 days to build the crematorium.. Kenyan authorities and conservationists will burn the largest stockpile on record Saturday ... The Story Behind 'The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez'.. Gathering evidence on the impact of Kenya's record-breaking ivory burn on elephant conservation should be an urgent priority according to .... President Daniel arap Moi ignited 12 tons of elephant tusks today in a gesture to persuade the world to halt the ivory trade. Soon after Mr. Moi lit .... Ivory is not flammable, so the process is akin to cremation. Enlarge this image. Volunteers carry elephant tusks to a burning site as Kenya Wildlife .... Kenya burns confiscated ivory – in pictures. Pyres of ivory burn into the night. Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba fields questions from journalists as his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta, listens. An ivory statue, right, lies on top of one of the stacks of tusks. Firefighters stand by as pyres of ivory are set on ...

The containers began arriving in Nairobi a few weeks before the burn — each filled with thousands ... The mere announcement of Kenya's intention to burn the ivory triggered its own ... For the rest of humanity, there is work remaining to be done with the images recorded ... The power of this act lives in how we tell the story.

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