DNA from elephant tusks and feces are a good clue – Times

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Analysis of DNA in stool elephant tusks and have allowed narrow the source of 85 percent of the illegal ivory two areas in Africa, a savannah and other forest, a basic factor to combat poaching of these animals.

A study by the University of Washington and published in the journal Science says that the result of these analyzes have a limit as large as Africa, the source of most of the ivory illegally leaving the continent every year.

Define the geographical areas can help fight poaching, which annually causes the disappearance of about 10 percent of the population of African elephants (about 50,000 of the 500,000 existing).

“Knowing that the majority of transnational trade focuses on two areas makes possible a strengthening of the law in these areas in order to eliminate most of the illegal killing “of elephants, said the biologist Samuel Wasser, the American university.

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