Kenya will on Saturday destroy a stockpile of elephant tusks in a bid to deter poaching and clamp down on the ivory trade.
Thousands of elephants are killed annually for their tusks as a way of satisfying the high demand for ivory in Asia.
The stockpile to be destroyed on Saturday includes tusks seized from poachers and animals who died of natural causes.
"Basically we take a mixture of fuel, diesel and kerosene and pump it under very high pressure into the middle of the pyramid of the ivor…
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