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Yet the Kenyan government sets fire to £30m worth of ivory, which if it had been sold on the open market would immediately have relieved pressure on the live animals as well as providing a massive boost to protection funds.

Nearly all African countries and preservation organisations have legitimate stock piles of ivory which they can’t sell because of ill-informed pressure groups. Sadly we live in a world where Twitter groups decide government policy.

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