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A guard stands by a pile of elephant tusks waiting to be burnt in Kenya

A guard stands by the burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton

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A guard stands by the burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton