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Destroying ivory by any practical means is difficult. [32] Burning is the most common method of large-scale destruction of ivory. When Kenya burned 12 tons of it in 1989, it created a major media spectacle and inspired similar actions around the world.
The largest poaching incident in Kenya since the ivory trade ban occurred in March 2002, when a family of ten elephants was killed. [8] Illegal elephant deaths decreased between 1990, when the CITES ban was issued, and 1997, when only 34 were illegally killed. [15] Ivory seizures rose dramatically since 2006 with many illegal exports going to ...
Ivory trade in Ghana, 1690. Elephant ivory has been exported from Africa and Asia for millennia with records going back to the 14th century BCE.Transport of the heavy commodity was always difficult, and with the establishment of the early-modern slave trades from East and West Africa, freshly captured slaves were used to carry the heavy tusks to the ports where both the tusks and their ...
Kenyan wildlife officials plan to burn 105 tons of ivory at the end of April in a move they say will protect elephants.
Public ivory burning in Nairobi in 2016. Ivory burning is a public event meant to deter animal poaching. Kenya was the first to burn ivory in 1989, then destroyed the largest amount in 2016 (105 tonnes).
The ivory was transported to the site in shipping containers then stacked into towers up to 10 ft (3.0 m) tall and 20 ft (6.1 m) in diameter. The ivory towers took personnel from the Kenya Wildlife Service ten days to build. The pyre also contained exotic animal skins. The amount of ivory destroyed equaled about 5% of the global stock.
Jim Justus Nyamu, of Nairobi, Kenya, is an elephant research scientist and activist against poaching and trade in ivory. Nyamu is the executive director at the Elephant Neighbors Center (ENC) and is leader of the movement, Ivory Belongs to Elephants. He has also held positions at the African Conservation Centre and Kenya Wildlife Service. The ...
To combat ivory, bushmeat and rhino horn poaching, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust operates anti-poaching units in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). [ 10 ] The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust operates a specialist canine unit with three Belgian Malinois who have been trained to track and detect illegal wildlife products such as ivory ...