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Photo Set: Kenya Ivory Burn 2011

Description: To raise public awareness of the impact of poaching on Africa's elephants, the Lusaka Agreement Task Force and the government of Kenya are burning five tonnes of seized ivory in Tsavo National Park on July 20, 2011.

Elephants’ Graveyard

Kenya Wildlife Service Officers

The President with winners of the Wildlife Law Enforcement Heroes Awards

The President prepares to light the torch

His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki and dignitaries igniting the ivory bonfire

The ivory on fire

KWS Ranger and the flaming ivory

The Ivory Inferno

Dr Julius Kipng’etich, Director Kenya Wildlife Service

Bonaventure Ebayi, Director Lusaka Agreement Task Force

The Rt. Hon. Ephraim Kamuntu, Uganda’s Minister of Tourism

Born Free's Shelley Waterland and bonfire

A Beacon of Hope?

Shelley with Paco Bockandza, Director of Lusaka Agreement Task Force for Republic of Congo