Kenya's 105 ton ivory burn-7581
The man in charge of making sure 105 tons of elephant tusks burn said it would have been much easier if they had put the ivory in a wood-chipper, but it would not have had the same symbolic impact. Robin Hollister, 63, a Hollywood location scout and special effects director, was also responsible for the firrst Kenyan ivory burn in 1989. He said the pyres were built on sacks of ilicit timber, including sandalwood, which had been confiscated by the Kenya Wildlife Service, then stuffed with pelts from various animals, including lions, leopards, colubus monkeys. There are ivory pyres 11 pyres, stacked with more than 16,000 tusks, and one pyre of rhino horn, which will burn 1.35 tons.
Kenya's 105 ton ivory burn-7581
The man in charge of making sure 105 tons of elephant tusks burn said it would have been much easier if they had put the ivory in a wood-chipper, but it would not have had the same symbolic impact. Robin Hollister, 63, a Hollywood location scout and special effects director, was also responsible for the firrst Kenyan ivory burn in 1989. He said the pyres were built on sacks of ilicit timber, including sandalwood, which had been confiscated by the Kenya Wildlife Service, then stuffed with pelts from various animals, including lions, leopards, colubus monkeys. There are ivory pyres 11 pyres, stacked with more than 16,000 tusks, and one pyre of rhino horn, which will burn 1.35 tons.