I told Taeyong I've been a fan since 2018 and he said "oh Boss?" and I said no Simon Says and he went "oh 127! This is the first time I've met a Simon Says fan"
The main answer is echolocation, but you severely underestimate the intimidation factor of a man in a devil costume screaming and full on sprinting at you
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.
Ever wondered how people in the Qing Dynasty learned English?
A foreign language textbook from a century ago: English pronunciation using Chinese characters, published in 1905
ELVENKING.
What a gift to return to Middle Earth, this character, these extraordinary people…. See you in Mirkwood!
Lord of the Rings, The Hunt for Gollum.
2027.
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Dear Global Twitter ;
I need your attention on this pedophile.
He only got an year sentence and 2 years of probation which means he wasn't put into jail.
A 11 year old got touched by a 22yo tutor in Korea.
The pedophile said 'You're not ripe enough so you won't taste good', rubbing his penis against her privacy.
The he said 'Im tryna kill you' when the victim asked why he is turning off the home camera which her single mother put it for safety purposes.
She said no, and everything was recorded on home camera.
Despite these, all that pedophile got was
an year sentence and 2 years of probation.
He isn't even in jail right now.
His girlfriend, knowing everything, bought him a fancy meal at fine dining restaurant, celebrating his probation.
His name is Sung Bum Park.
He was born in 22th Oct 2004.
He is now enrolled in Hongik University.
His ig : tiger.miku (disabled)
I hope this post raises awareness regarding sexual harassment against children and women in Korea.
No ill will or misinformation included.
Thank you.