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
Patara Elephant Farm This is because elephants were used for labor in the destruction of these forests. Nowadays, using them for this kind of labor is not a major concern since teak logging was banned in Thailand in 1989. Even with this ban, some illegal logging activities still happen along the Thai-Burma border. Immediately after the 1989 ban, many laborer elephants were unemployed. This happened when the tourist industry in Thailand was becoming big, and therefore many of these elephants were bought to be used in the elephant tourism industry. Since after the 1989 logging ban many mahouts were also left without jobs,