Forget elephants, are we the West's footstool?

Forget the long hours of intense debate over highly complex issues, the tomes of reports made and the resolutions hammered out in long drawn out, sometimes emotional discussions, the story of the day for the BBC was what happened right at the end of the summit. That Masisi gave his counterparts parting gifts made from elephant legs.

Where the President intended to demonstrate the enduring value of wildlife, how elephants that have died naturally can still have a commercial use, the BBC sought to paint a gruesome picture of African savages hacking the legs of living elephants to carve crude gifts for bloodthirsty leaders.