The Daily Nation reports:

President Uhuru Kenyatta will Tuesday become the third president in Kenya’s history to set ablaze 15 tonnes of elephant ivory to mark the World Wildlife Day.

I hope this doesn’t become a thing that every president does over the duration of their tenure (well, by definition, if it is we’ll eventually run out of elephants).

Also, burning 15 tonnes of ivory sounds like such a waste. Can’t we just pile them up as a monument? A reminder each year – as the pile grows – of our collective failure to stop poaching? Just a thought.

Happy Wangari Maathai Day. Happy Wildlife Day.

Fact: 15 tonnes of ivory is worth about USD 28.3m in China.