DNA analysis of elephant ivory reveals trafficking networks
Two young elephants play in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. According to a report released on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, scientists found that most large ivory seizures between 2002 and 2019 contained tusks from repeated poaching of the same elephant populations. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
By CHRISTINA LARSON
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON — As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of Africa, according to a new study....
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