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Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a way to use DNA from ivory to solve the mystery of poaching and bring animal traffickers to justice.

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At least 10,000 African elephants are killed each year, and their ivory is then loaded into shipping containers and transported to ports across Africa.When you open those containers The container usually has what we call a lid. Or something else ... to camouflage the ivory. It could be wood, it could be coffee, it could be plastic waste,” said Samuel Wasser of the company.

Washington University which has been tracking these shipments for over a decade.a couple of years ago His team sequenced the DNA with confiscated ivory. This allows them to link shipments from three ivory smuggling groups.Now, they have expanded the scope of that work, studying DNA from more than 4,000 tusks in 49 large ivory seizures.

And the connection we have received from individual transnational organized crime to their arrest has been incredible. I mean Some of these symptoms are linked to 30 different types of seizures when we link the genetics linked to seizures. then told law enforcement that All the physical evidence they collect can be linked together and put together into a bigger picture.

And it created a much stronger and stronger investigation,” said Dr. Wasser.The analysis was co-authored by Special Agent John Brown III from the Department of Homeland Security, who said DNA evidence could help governments work together to prosecute these crimes.