Ivory Trash

A powerful image from God’s Ivory

In April 2012, for his award-winning God’s Ivory photo essay, Brent travelled to Bouba Ndjida National Park in northern Cameroon, where the largest mass killing of elephants had taken place just weeks before. Here, close to the border with Chad and the Central African Republic, a group of over 100 ivory poachers armed with AK47S, grenades and machine guns rode into the park on horseback and killed over 650 elephants over a two-month period. 340 carcasses had been located by the time Brent arrived. This picture shows a village ranger examining the corpses.