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FILE - In this Wednesday, June 5, 2013 file photo, two baby orphaned elephants touch trunks as they give themselves a dust-bath in the red earth after being fed milk from a bottle by a keeper, at an event to commemorate World Environment Day at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. Wildlife Direct chief executive Paula Kahumbu on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 delivered a petition with nearly 400 signatures on it to Kenya's inspector general of police urging the arrest of what her group says is the "ivory kingpin" of Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

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