Posted on 01/30/2016 6:35:44 AM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Hollywood celebrities, global activists and heads of state are set to gather for an anti-poaching summit in Kenya later this year, Kenyan officials announced this week. More than 120 tons of ivory are to be torched during the April event in a display intended to express the East African country’s opposition to the illegal ivory trade, a spokesman for the president told local reporters.
Among those expected to attend are actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman, musician Elton John, financier George Soros, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Chinese former basketball player Yao Ming, Agence France-Presse reported. Several heads of states are also expected to attend, according to Kenyan officials.
Anti-poaching campaigns have grown in Africa as hunting increasingly threatens the survival of a number of African animal species. Ivory from elephants is often smuggled to China and used for jewelry and other decorations. Tusks are also used in ornaments elsewhere in Asia, including in the Middle East. Ivory is often a symbol of one's wealth. The Kenyan stockpile set to be burned later this year could be worth as much as $270 million on the market.
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Sir Elton John will there for the event? I find it hard to believe that any concert grand piano he has ever performed on would have synthetic ivory on the keys.
Elephants or rhinos??
They seem to be morphing into a new species - rhinophants.
That is liberals for you. If they auctioned it off they could have had $270M for law enforcement and welfare while crashing the ivory market. Sounds like something our pRedident would do.
That’s a lot of pistol grips!
They should sell all on the ivory market.
MOAB
Oh, the “ivi-rony”!
are these people IDIOTS.....
sell the ivory for your empovershied citizens...
and use some fo thefunds to increasee PREVENTION OF POACHING...
idiots
So these freaks are against animal poaching but they are hell-bent on impovershing 99.99% of the population and eliminating 90% of the population.
Instead of poaching endangered animals, poachers should use their skills against the demon possessed globalists.
I really hope Boko Haram hasn’t read about this.
So now the price of Ivory will go up and those who already have ivory will be even richer....Thanks, Guys.
Why don’t they sell this ivory, reduce demand, and use the money to protect elephants? Too logical?
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