The animals are innocent, tame the poacher in our midst

When Kenya-born British singer and song-writer Roger Whittaker sang “Make Way For Man” in the album My Land Is Kenya (A Musical Safari) in 1984, poaching of wildlife was at an all-time high. Little did Whittaker know how true his melody rang as time has proved him right: Mankind is the greatest enemy of our wildlife heritage. Period.

The latest worldwide report shows that one African elephant is killed every 15 minutes, sacrificed at the altar of an increasingly sophisticated, ruthless and illegal trade in ivory. In June, a 45-year-old elephant named Satao, who was one of Africa’s last ‘great tusker’ elephants was killed by poachers. The danger of poaching couldn’t have sunk an lower than this.