Yao Ming aims to save Africa's elephants by persuading China to give up ivory September 4, 2014 More than 10 years ago Summary ...

Before Gettlemen’s article, the best that the media could muster in recent weeks was star-struck coverage of Yao Ming’s trip to Kenya in August to document the elephant and rhino-poaching crisis there ...

Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming is starring in a film designed to persuade people to stop buying ivory and end the slaughter of elephants as poaching for ivory reaches its highest levels ...

HOUSTON – Yao Ming fed a giraffe, petted a rhino and walked in an elephant cage during a visit to the Houston Zoo. The former Houston Rockets center talked Thursday about his increasing role as ...

Chinese basketball star Yao Ming kicked off his latest campaign with wildlife protection group WildAid, this time to reduce ivory demand and raise awareness of elephant poaching. Yao, a past ...

Yao Ming spends time with Kinango, a two-week old orphaned elephant whose mother was poached for her ivory. (Kristian Schmidt for WildAid/WILDAID) ...

Yao Ming walks with Kinango, an infant elephant whose mother was killed by poachers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. Photo by: Kristian Schmidt/WildAid. Former NBA Basketball player ...

YAO MING bottle -feeds a baby orphan elephant. It was a trip to Africa that turned former NBA star Yao Ming into a staunch protector of the elephant, the animal kingdom’s gentle giant.

One of China’s most visible stars, former NBA player Yao Ming, wants his countrymen to know that their rising appetite for ivory is resulting in dead elephants across Africa.

Yao Ming in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. Photo: Kristian Schmidt/WildAid Yao Ming is a giant man, but he paled in comparison to the corpse of the elephant stripped of ivory that lay at his ...

Yao has been writing about his trip to Africa on a just-started blog, detailing his introduction to the extent of the elephant and rhino poaching problem, his flight to Kenya on Virgin Atlantic ...