Abstract
Applied Ecology The African elephant ivory trade is a multibillion dollar industry linked to the deaths of up to 40,000 elephants each year. Wasser et al. used DNA-based tools to identify the major exporters that smuggle ivory out of Africa. They sampled 38 seizures between 2006 and 2015 to distinguish the patterns and occurrences of tusks that came from the same elephant but had been shipped separately. Of the samples, 28 were considered a match, suggesting that tusks from the same elephant are often shipped by the same trafficker in separate shipments. Analysis of the seizure connections revealed three major export networks. Almost all matched seizures passed through a common port within 10 months of one another. Sci. Adv. 10.1126/sciadv.aat0625 (2018).
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