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DNA and Elephant Poaching
Monday, October 08, 2007
Ivory poaching is on the rise again in Africa, and black-market sales of elephant tusks are at an all-time high. Now the fight against poachers has extended to the science lab. Dr. Samuel Wasser, an ivory expert at the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, will explain how DNA technology can be used to track down and arrest poachers.
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