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 of Chachoengsao Province. The important water resource is the Prachinburi River. The district is divided into nine sub-districts ("tambon"), which are further subdivided into 93 villages ("muban"). Ban Sang itself is a township ("thesaban tambon") which covers parts of "tambon" Ban Sang and Bang Krabao. There are a further seven tambon administrative organizations (TAO). 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