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
The Elephants and space". The Elephants The Elephants () is a 1948 painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. The elephant is a recurring theme in the works of Dalí, first appearing in his 1944 work "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening", and also in "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" and "Swans Reflecting Elephants". "The Elephants" differs from the other paintings in that the animals are the primary focus of the work, with a barren graduated background and lack of other content, where most of Dalí's paintings contain much detail and points