Ivory from 7,000 dead elephants goes up in smoke: Kenya stages largest tusk bonfire in history burning £68MILLION worth of illegal goods in a bid to stamp out poaching trade

Officials in Kenya have sent millions of pounds worth of ivory up in flames in a bid to stamp out the illegal wildlife trade and the slaughter of thousands of elephants every year. Some ten towering piles - or £68 million ($100m) dollars worth - of ivory was incinerated in Kenya's Nairobi National Park today, in what was the largest ivory burn in history. Compiled from the tusks of some 7,000 dead elephants, 105 tonnes of ivory smouldered as Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta condemned the illegal ivory trade which is decimating the elephant population across the African continent. Lighting the fire in Nairobi's national park, the president demanded a total ban on trade in ivory to end the 'murderous' trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild.