Will burning ivory stop poaching or is it an insignificant ritual conducted periodically?

Workers from KWS pile ivory ready for burning at the Kenya Wildlife Services Headquarters at the Ivory site for an event that will be presided over by President Uhuru Kenyatta and other invited Heads of States on Saturday at the Same venue. 28/02/2016 Photo by WILLIS AWANDU

Today, the world will witness the burning of a huge stockpile of elephant tusks and rhino horns.

But as President Uhuru Kenyatta undertakes what has now become a ritual, questions abound about the identity of the real people behind the killing of the jumbos and rhinos.