FRANCE: In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of African elephants have been killed by poachers, who take their tusks and sell the ivory for profit. Stopping this crime has proven difficult, as the ivory is often sold in countries far away from where the poaching occurs, transported and controlled by transnational crime syndicates.
Leading the search to find the source of the poaching is Samuel Wasser, a former CSI investigator who examines the DNA found in ivory seizures. We caught up with Samuel to discuss the importance of elephants in nature, why it’s so difficult to track the source of the poaching, and why he remains hopeful about the future of elephants in Africa.
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