Elephant hunting in Kenya at least one member of "Kenya's royal family" (the Kenyatta) had shipped over six tons of ivory to China. In the 1970s, 1900 elephants were killed in Kenya for their ivory tusks, increasing to 8300 elephants in the 1980s. In 1989, as a dramatic gesture to persuade the world to halt the ivory trade, President Daniel arap Moi ignited twelve tons of elephant tusks. In the 1990s the widespread ban on commercial ivory trading reduced the industry to a fraction of what it had been and elephant populations have stabilised. But illegal poaching and sale on the black market still
Pink Elephants on Parade After the sequence, Dumbo and Timothy wake up, hungover, in a tree. It is at this point that they realise that Dumbo can fly. Pink Elephants on Parade Pink Elephants on Parade is the name of a segment, and the song played therein, from the 1941 Disney animated feature film "Dumbo" in which Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse, having accidentally become intoxicated (through drinking water spiked with moonshine), see pink elephants sing, dance, and play marching band instruments during a hallucination sequence. The song was written by Oliver Wallace and Ned Washington and sung by Mel Blanc, Thurl Ravenscroft and