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Photo by Beverly Joubert @beverlyjoubert | For World Elephant Day, I'm posting an image of the burning tusks from thousands of elephants in Kenya in 2016, the largest ivory burn to date. These burns are controversial acts against poaching because of the high monetary value of ivory, and while Kenya didn’t expect this to end the poaching, it sent a strong message: Elephants are worth more alive, and Kenya was stepping up its war against those who traffic in wildlife and wildlife products. Why not sell the ivory and use the money for the conservation of these animals? Well, these tusks are mostly from elephants illegally killed for their ivory, which has been confiscated over the years, and Kenya refused to make money from contraband. Also, in the past ivory released for sale ended up fueling the demand, and there was a sudden and extreme rise in elephant poaching, which has cost countries countless more millions than were ever raised from sales. Tanzania lost over half its elephant population in just five years, and Africa lost a whopping third of all elephants. Many people don’t know that elephants are killed for their tusks and believe that they fall out naturally. They don’t. Since this burn, a number of important things have happened. China has banned the sale of ivory, and while there is still illegal trade, prices have fallen dramatically and so has elephant poaching. However, in southern Africa, where the world's last substantial elephant population remains, Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe are calling for an end to the ban in trade of raw ivory and are planning to apply for these changes at the next CITES to conference, declaring that the money raised will be used for conservation and anti-poaching. #WorldElephantDay #worthmorealive #saynotoivory #kenyaivoryburn #whenthebuyingstopsthekillingcantoo

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ejysereid I don’t know, I still can’t agree with burning the ivory, I think it’s pointless. But I can understand why releasing a small amount of ivory to the market would further increase demand. I think the only way to avoid that would be to release all the ivory that’s in storage, entirely flood the market with everything that’s been confiscated(which is an insane amount) and then undercut the poachers prices, reducing its value to the point poaching isn’t worth it, then use that money to fund conservation jobs were the poachers can work to help protect them instead. I’d say that could work for rhino horn as well, plus you could start rhino farms to 1) start breeding more rhinos which are easily released back into the wild and 2) because rhino horn is like your fingernails it grows back in a few years, so that could be sold in a sustainable manner, putting profit in the living rhino rather than the dead... I think to save these animals we have to think a little outside the box 🤷‍♂️

corinne_toesk Si on dit que vendre l'ivoire c'est cautionner le massacre, c'est une sage décision. Mais je suis triste parce que tous ces éléphants sont mort dans d'atroces souffrances ... pour rien 😭😭😭. Faire un memorial (construit par les braconniers sans être payé) et utiliser l'argent pour traquer les braconniers... la morale m'interdit d'aller plus loin dans mes propos mais le comportement de ces voleurs de vies me révolte 🤬

wildwestcoastbryan As the post says the sale of ivory increases the demand for it and it's value.If the government's of Namibia,Botswana and Zimbabwe seek to trade in Ivory it is to fuel their own greed not to save species.Keep the ban of raw ivory in place.Elephants are worth more alive than dead.

teresasafierealtor They need to find a different way of raising money for anti poaching and conservation and join Kenya in sending the same@strong message. Desperate times call@for drastic measures. Can a world wide petition be started to stop them from selling the poached ivory?

nuts4910 What a price to pay for human greed. Poor beautiful, intelligent elephants. Well done Kenya - shame to the other countries that want the ban in ivory trade to end. Their reasoning is a contradiction as Kenya has proven. RIP elephants. 😢

b.o.essien Selling seized tusks will encourage the market for ivory, and undermine efforts to end poaching. Instead of buying directly from poachers, traders will simply wait for the government auction.

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