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Geographical Magazine FROM THE ARCHIVE: Ivory Ghosts 2021 Will this be the last we see of the magnificent African elephant? Elliot Daniel travelled to Africa to investigate the rise of poaching following a decision to lift the ivory ban.
Machine guns cocked and at the ready, we trekked g deep into the Kenyan Tsavo National Park, the jagged spikes of the Commiphora bush tore at my body, the dust from the baked red earth stained my clothes blood red. There, in a clearing, lay the slaughtered elephant. Its bones bleached white by the sweltering sun, its hardened skin lay lifeless, draped like an “ ancient fishing net on a discarded boat. Scattered remains lay where the great beast had been brought down, its tusks destined to become a trinket on a mantlepiece in a faraway land. Everything reeked of death. The musky scent pervading the air is one I will not easily forget.
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ASIWYFA at the Mandela Hall, Belfast (Image: Graham Smith)
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These days, Belfast has a terrific pedigree for top quality live music.
But despite advancing years and a health scare the prince is said to have kept up with youngsters from Laburnum Boat Club and Hackney Quest as a patron of London Youth charity.
The Duke of Edinburgh visited young people at Hackney Quest as a patron of London Youth on February 21 in 2012.
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The prince had been hospitalised with heart problems the previous Christmas and watched young people narrow boating, rock climbing, and pancake making at Laburnum Boat Club along the Regents Canal in Haggerston, even getting involved himself.
“The prince was very good considering his age and his recent ill health,” said director Jim Armstrong at the time.