Thoughts on ivory

The value of ivory, whether recovered from poachers or sold through a government auction, is forever high. It is for that reason that I find Kenya’s plan to torch over 100 tonnes of illicit ivory, just to prove that its ‘worthless’, as an ill-thought out absurdity. Confiscated ivory can still be sold legally and the proceeds used to improve the lives of so many poor African people as well as saving the remaining elephants. Whats more, there is nothing symbolic in burning so many millions of dollars worth of ivory to send a message to poachers instead of arresting, or simply shooting them dead on sight as Botswana does. To that end, I fully support the Botswana government’s decision not to attend the hollow and fallacious Kenyan ‘symbolic’ burning of ivory, despite the fact that best-homeboy Barrack Obama will be around to lend his light-weight to this stupid and obnoxious notion. The thing is Kenya, has what it takes to make clean money, but they chose to burn it, ostensibly to send out a message they themselves can’t, and will never believe in even in their most memorable moment of madness. It is in this statue, which you will find at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in Gaborone, Botswana, that confiscated ivory is made good use of. Its a truly symbolic sign that even after recovery from poachers, ivory remains valuable. Plumes of smoke hide a lot of things, its only in the feudal days that they were used to send messages to compensate for the ancestors inability to think of better ways, which we have done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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