Yao "Elephant Defender" Ming is the subject of a new series on Animal Planet, in which the basketball star tours Africa to learn about the illegal ivory trade and make elephants look tiny by standing next to them.
Yao takes animal conservation seriously, and has spent much energy both in China and Africa to fight poaching (and occasionally gives insane online Q&As).
The Animal Planet series, Saving Africa's Giants with Yao Ming, aired in the USA earlier this week, and you can watch clips of it here. You can see Yao meet native Africans, hang out with baby elephants, feed elephants and talk about the dire state of poaching in Africa and the need to end the ivory market in China.
You keep fighting the good fight, Yao. We'll keep, well, not buying ivory.
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