One of the world's leading investigators into the illegal trade in ivory and rhino horn, Esmond Bradley Martin, has been killed in Kenya
75-year-old Esmond Bradley Martin risked his life secretly photographing and documenting illegal sales of ivory and rhino horn. On Sunday, he was found with a stab wound to his neck at home in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
A former UN special envoy for rhino conservation, Mr Martin was well known for his undercover work establishing black-market prices.
He recently returned from a research trip to Myanmar.
His wife discovered his body in their house in Langata. Police are investigating the circumstances but suspect it was a botched robbery.
His first trip to Kenya from the US was in the 1970s when there was a surge in the number of elephants being killed for their ivory.
His work on illegal wildlife markets helped pressure China to ban the rhino horn trade in the 1990s, and domestic sales of ivory, which came into force this year.
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