Israeli attacks on Gaza since 2023 killed at least 73,795 people, wounded more than 174,800. More than 20,000 children killed, 44,000 injured. Thousands of children have lost limbs, while roughly 17,000 have been left unaccompanied or orphaned. The US is directly complicit.
@TristanBeMe101@MrBeast Implied? So it's YOUR perception that is flawed? Popbase could have easily acknowledged his achievements in his industry the same way they did Adele. Him playfully asking for that recognition wasn't in any way implying that he's better than or even on the same level as Adele!
@TextBookCentre An email from one Petra sent about the same time you're tweeting me this, is telling me that my refund will take 48-72 hours, and here you are telling me the books are on their way? Why should I have to wait for 72hrs for a refund? Did my payment take 48-72hrs?
Behind that ranger sits part of 105 tonnes of ivory worth roughly $150 million on the black market. Days after this photo, Kenya soaked the lot in jet fuel and burned it. Critics warned it would backfire. A decade on, ivory prices have crashed and poaching is at a 20-year low.
The piles held the tusks of around 7,000 elephants and the horns of 343 rhinos. It was the biggest ivory burn in history. The full stockpile was about 5 percent of all the ivory sitting in African government storerooms at the time. Kenya's entire annual environment budget was smaller than what they were about to set on fire.
The argument against burning was simple. Cut the supply, push up the price, poachers come back harder. One conservation economist compared the move to Iraq going offline during the Iran-Iraq war, when oil prices spiked. Burn $150 million of ivory and the same shock should hit.
None of that happened. Raw ivory in China peaked at around $2,100 per kilogram in 2014. Then Kenya burned its stockpile in April 2016, China shut its legal ivory market in December 2017, and similar bans rolled through the US, Europe, and elsewhere. The price broke. By 2020, the going price across Africa had fallen to about $92 per kilogram. In Kenya specifically, what a poacher could get for a kilo of raw tusk dropped from $190 in 2014 to $52 by 2018. Inside China, the share of people saying they would ever buy ivory fell from 43 percent before the ban to 18 percent by 2020.
The bet was based on an old number. A 2014 Sheldrick Wildlife Trust study found that one live elephant brings in around $23,000 a year in tourism revenue. Across a 70-year lifespan, that is roughly $1.6 million. Its tusks, ripped out, sell for around $21,000. That is the 76-to-1 ratio that gets thrown around in conservation circles. Kenya runs around 10 percent of its economy on tourism today, almost all of it built around live wildlife.
The numbers since have backed the call. The UN's 2024 wildlife crime report says the global ivory market is shrinking, with seizures and poaching both down. A 2024 Colorado State study found African elephant numbers fell 77 percent on average between 1964 and 2016. After 2016, things turned. Forest elephant decline slowed from 7 percent a year to under 1. Savanna elephant poaching is at its lowest level since global tracking started in 2003.
The ranger in this photo is guarding ivory Kenya was about to destroy on purpose. Within four years, the market for what he was guarding had collapsed.
@cartlundmonson@johannesmkx Your whole account is dedicated to anti-black/anti-muslim rhetoric. It doesn't surprise me that you would think that. Coming from a person who actually believes themselves to be more intelligent than the people he hates, this take is laughable.
Interesting how wars are named after the country attacked: Vietnam War, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Iran War... That's because if they were named after the attacker, it would be too confusing, since 80% of conflicts would be called the US war.
Kenyans have a right to say they don’t want Israelis owning land in this country. They also have a right to stand with the people of Palestine. That’s their choice.
What I find absurd is people trying to acquire large tracts of land here and then saying it’s so Israeli teenagers can “integrate” with Kenyan teenagers. Integrate how exactly? What are you really saying? Who told you there’s a shortage in how our children are integrating?
The truth is, you can invest in your own country. Let’s be honest about why you’re here. Many of these deals only happen because you’re in bed with people in government willing to sell access to our land and resources at throwaway prices.
You benefit from our soil and our cheap labour. And history has shown us that once interests are secured, you won’t hesitate to distance yourselves from ordinary Kenyans. That’s the real concern people are raising.
Also, go to hell with your religion manipulative tactics🚶🏾♀️