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| The fire was lit by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta who sought a total ban on trade in ivory (video below) |
May 1, 2016, NewsCrunch
Kenya set fire to its vast ivory stockpile at Nairobi's national park to send a strong message to save elephants from slaughter.
Officials poured thousands of litres of diesel and kerosene into eleven giant pyres of tusks and torched them sending huge white clouds of smoke.