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
Ban Sang District Ban Sang District Ban Sang (, ) is the westernmost district ("amphoe") of Prachinburi Province, central Thailand. In the past the area of the district was dense forest with many wild elephants. Laotians from Vientiane moved to settle their village in the area, which they named Ban Chang (lit., 'elephant village'). Later the name changed to Ban Sang. Ban Sang District was established in 1905. Neighboring districts are (from the northwest clockwise) Ongkharak, Mueang Nakhon Nayok, and Pak Phli of Nakhon Nayok Province; Mueang Prachinburi and Si Mahosot of Prachinburi Province; Ratchasan, Bang Khla, Khlong Khuean and Bang Nam Priao