Esmond Bradley Martin, one of the world's leading observers against the illegal trade of elephants and turtles, has been found kidnapped and killed in Kenya's capital Nairobi.
He performed secret investigations in some of the world's most dangerous and challenging areas, photographying and listinging the markets of the corners, speaking to speculators, and making pricing inventories in the illegal market of the whole business in an effort to guide policy makers in environmental conservation.
In the past several years, he traveled to China, Vietnam, and Laos with the coordinator Lucy Vigne, arriving in areas where fewer foreigners would scatter, pretending to be elephants and elephants.
In the Chinese-owned gambling area in Laos, these unusual lovers contended with poachers, drug speculators, and illegal traffickers, wildlife and wildlife to gain access to data.
Their study sponsored by the Save the Elephants has revealed that Laos has become the fastest zone of the world trade industry.
They had come back to Myanmar on a journey from the countryside and Mr. Martin was writing a report he had gathered when he was killed.
Police are investigating the source of his execution. He died from knitting a knife at his home near Kren, just outside Nairobi's capital.
It seems that it was a fatal robbery to sege mnege, but the police are investigating whether his death is related to the work he was doing.
In an interview with the BBC in 2016, he said that the reason for an increase in illegal hunting in the last five years in Africa is due to the poor management of elephants living.
"Corruption can be a major source of elephant hunting." Corruption in all levels, "he said.
"What happened in the last few years is that most Chinese citizens have entered Africa .. there are approximately one million or more Chinese people working now in Africa.
"We are the biggest open-air markets in Angola such as Angola, Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan - Mozambique, and I think - with many corners from these puppets purchased by Chinese."
He helped to close the markets with a lot of open-mindedness - and to make governments with poor wildlife crime recordings breaking out.
His job in China has grown strongly by supporting the ban on the elephants in the country's elephant horn this year - with the sale of tangled horns in the 90's.
He knew to wear
White hair like snow and a suit suit, usually does not have a flat cloth hanging from his shirt bag.
Esmond Bradley Martin did not have a lot of words, but he was very ambitious, passionate and fully involved in his work - collecting data and information on illegal hunting of wildlife.
Born in New York, he arrived in Kenya for the first time in the 70's when elephants were executed for their horns in large numbers.
It was then that he met the founder of the Save the Elephants, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who says the death of his 45-year-old friend is a very serious blow in his career.
"Esmond was one of the survivors of environmental protection who was not valued accordingly," he says.
"His great task against illegal marketing of elephant horns and turtles did in dangerous dangers over and over and against many movements that could normally rob a person of his age.
"At the age of 18 of his work with the Save The Elephants, Esmond - along with his colleagues - have published ten reports against the greedy and illegal markets of Elephant Horns."
Kenyan conservation conservation Paula Kahumbu says Mr. Martin usually did not hide his research information and was distributing what he had discovered for great benefit.
"He was in front of everyone in the recognition of the trading of Elephant Horns and Tires," he says, quoting Martin's recent research.
"Recognizing that the trade has shifted from China to neighboring countries will help environmentalists to push the government into reform."
There is a division in the environment conservation community that best suits for elephant and turkey rescue: To allow and coordinate the business to earn income, or to ban entirely illegal and illegal products to change attitudes.
US Ambassador Kenya, Bob Godec, has condemned Martin's murder and said it was a bad campaign for Kenya and the world.
He says himself will lose his sense of understanding, and his love for his work, adding: "Wildlife in Africa has lost a true friend, but his work in environmental conservation will continue for years to come."
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