Worth More Alive: A call to end the illegal wildlife trade


  • Photographer
    Khadija Farah
  • Prize
    3rd Place / Editorial/General News
  • Date of Photograph
    April 28 and 30, 2016

105 tons of ivory, 1 ton of rhino horn, numerous animal skins, sandalwood etc. were set ablaze in Kenya's Nairobi National Park on April 30, 2016. The historic burn was meant to send a message that ivory has no value unless it is on elephants and that its trade should be banned. In the past ten years, one in five elephants have been killed for their tusks. 1,338 rhinos were killed for their horns last year, out of an estimated total population of only 25,600 black and white rhinos. 11 pyres were created out of confiscated elephant tusks, animal skins, and sandalwood. These ivory towers were guarded by KWS rangers 24/7. The rhino horns, because of their value, were only taken out of storage the morning of the burn. 1kg of rhino horn fetches $67k on the market. "To lose our elephants would be to lose a key part of our heritage, and we quite simply will not allow it. We will not be the Africans who stood by as that happened.” -President Uhuru Kenyatta

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