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Rangers practice their riding skills at Zakouma National Park in Chad. The park has four mounted ranger teams because horses are the only way to effectively patrol during the wet season, when the elephants head to drier land outside the park.

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GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

8:12pm August 12, 2015

Some 30,000 African elephants die each year as a result of poaching. Journalist Bryan Christy wanted to see where their tusks were going, so he ordered fake tusks and fitted them with trackers.

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Customs officers in Hong Kong stand guard near several tons of ivory tusks seized during an anti-smuggling operation in 2012. The tusks and other ivory items had been shipped inside two containers from Tanzania and Kenya.

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DNA Tracking Of Ivory Helps Biologists Find Poaching Hotspots

5:40pm June 19, 2015

by Christopher Joyce

To stop elephant slaughter in Africa, zoologist Sam Wasser spent years extracting DNA from elephant dung and tissue. Much of the world's poached ivory, he discovered, comes from just two hotspots.

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