Yao Ming is an ambassador for elephant conservation!

Yao Ming is an ambassador for elephant conservation!

Africans look at elephants much as Chinese look at Yao Ming, their 7’6" giant basketball star. They see power and majesty as well as gentleness and decency.

That would make Mr. Yao an ideal ambassador for elephant conservationists hoping to convince the Chinese public not to buy trinkets made from African ivory and thereby to deprive poachers of demand for bloodstained tusks.

To the conservationists’ great relief, Mr. Yao has accepted the job. He is the face of an ambitious new campaign aimed at affluent Chinese which seeks to generate interest in African wildlife—in it's natural habitat rather than as carved mementoes on living-room shelves.

Hopefully Mr. Yao will do an excellent job!

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