Elephant Tusk DNA Helps Track Ivory Poachers


Poachers kill about 40,000 elephants every year. Doctors can use a genetic map to find out where the elephant was killed. This will help law enforcement target certain areas to try and stop poaching.






https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/science/ivory-poaching-genetics.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Ftrilobites

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  1. AnonymousOctober 5, 2018 at 5:02 AM

    This is important because there is no need for poaching as it would eventually lead to the extinction of the elephants.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 12, 2018 at 6:18 AM

    It's important they can do this so the elephants wont go extinct.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 15, 2018 at 6:47 AM

    How are they capable of finding where exactly they were killed from? But if it does actually help find out where poachers kill the elephants, it will make it easier to catch the poachers and allow for the population to increase and grow.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 17, 2018 at 5:05 AM

    Doctors are a key part of elephant extinction and making poacher easier to spot and kill much easier.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 17, 2018 at 6:09 AM

    I think it is great that they are tracking where they are killed because if they didn't know and the elephants just keep getting killed, the elephants will be extinct.

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