DNA sleuthing pinpoints two African elephant poaching hot spots

Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DNA testing on tons of ivory seized from traffickers has identified two elephant poaching "hot spots" in Africa in a development scientists hope will spur a crackdown on the illegal trade decimating the population of Earth's largest land animal.

Read the whole article on Reuters:Science

More from Reuters:Science

Learn more about

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net