HOT TUSKS Tourists pose for pictures next to some of the illegal stockpiles of elephant tusks stacked up onto pyres at Nairobi’s national park, waiting to be burned along with more than a ton of rhino-horn at what is said to be the biggest stockpile destruction in history. AFP PHOTO
NAIROBI: Eleven giant pyres of tusks will be set on fire Saturday as Kenya torches its vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture aimed at shocking the world into stopping the slaughter of elephants.