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Preparations are virtually set in Kenya’s Nairobi National Park where a huge stockpile of illegal elephant and rhino tusks plus a small collection of ivory figurines are to be destroyed on Saturday.

The ivory were confiscated by Kenyan authorities.

The effort, a symbolic disapproval of the trade threatening elephants with extinction, according to an account by AFP, will see the 105 tonnes of ivory which represents thousands of dead elephants go up in flames on specially prepared pyres.

It is reported that rhino horns account for 1.35 tonnes of the lot from over 340 rhinos and estimated to value as much as $80 million on the black market while the quantity of ivory could sell for over $100 million.