In 1973, Kenya had 167,000 elephants. By 1989, poachers had reduced that number to 16,000. The ivory trade - fuelled by demand from Asia and enabled by corrupt officials - had nearly wiped out the species. Then Richard Leakey set fire to twelve tonnes of ivory tusks in Nairobi National Park, and the world paid attention. This trail follows Kenya's elephant crisis from the poaching epidemic through the ivory burn, the international ban, and the ongoing struggle between conservation and the communities who live alongside the herds.
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