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KENYA / IVORY BURNING
STORY: KENYA / IVORY BURNING
TRT: 2:32
SOURCE: UNDP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAG: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 APRIL 2016, NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK, KENYA
1. Wide shot, pile of ivory
2. Wide shot, cameras and reporters
3. Various shots, piles of ivory burning
4. Wide shot, officials and people attending the event
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Uhuru Kenyatta, president of Kenya:
“Evidently today’s burning does not in itself ends this murderous trade, but if we combine it with aggressive enforcement of laws already on our books, with effective control over the movement of ivory, and with attacks on the incentives to market it a lot of elephants will be saved and this is as simple as that.”
6. Various shots, event
7. Wide shot, piles of ivory burning
8. Wide shot, people at the burning site
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
“Protecting the wildlife is part of the sustainable development of Kenya. Sure, an elephant killed gives a poacher an amount of money. But that is the end of that elephant’s story. That elephant alive is worth so much more than it ever was dead.”
10. Various shots, people attending the event
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
“We need a UN wildlife concerted effort. We’re all doing a lot, we need to join up our efforts. We need to go to the partners and say back us as a package. We have the capacity on the ground through the huge field presence of UNDP to scale up very rapidly. We can’t see countries losing 50 percent of their elephants every 5 years and expect to have elephants left. That’s how urgent it is.”
12. Various shots, piles of burning ivory
Kenyan officials today (30 Apr) burned more than 105 tons of ivory and 1.3 tons of rhino horns. Worth over $100 million, the pyres of ivory set ablaze at the event send a strong message in the effort to combat the illegal trade that threatens elephant and rhino populations throughout Africa.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta hosted delegates from around the world to support protecting endangered species and combat wildlife crime.
He said “today’s burning does not in itself ends this murderous trade, but if we combine it with aggressive enforcement of laws already on our books, with effective control over the movement of ivory, and with attacks on the incentives to market it a lot of elephants will be saved and this is as simple as that.”
Among the many politicians and celebrities on hand to attend the event, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark delivered a keynote address and assisted in lighting one of the many pyres of ivory.
She said, “protecting the wildlife is part of the sustainable development of Kenya. An elephant killed gives a poacher an amount of money. That elephant alive is worth so much more than it ever was dead.”
The estimated tourism value of a living elephant far surpasses that of the ivory contained in its tusks, leading to strict policies to protect dwindling populations in several countries.
Clark also said, “we need a UN wildlife concerted effort. We’re all doing a lot, we need to join up our efforts. We need to go to the partners and say back us as a package. We have the capacity on the ground through the huge field presence of UNDP to scale up very rapidly. We can’t see countries losing up to 50% of their elephants every 5 years and expect to have elephants left. That’s how urgent it is.”
Earlier this week, Helen Clark had announced that UNDP is beginning to program (USD) 60 million of new GEF financing to frontline conservation on the continent.
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