Elephant Dung Helps Track Smuggled Ivory - Study
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Using elephant dung and skin samples, researchers said they were able to make a map of elephant DNA that could help track down ivory poachers.
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Online auction site eBay will ban all  international trade of elephant ivory on its sites, the company  said on Tuesday in a move welcomed by an animal welfare group  which found the bulk of the ivory was most likely illegal.
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Authorities working to protect eiephants from poachers get a big boost from the DNA analysis of ivory, enabling them to zero in on where specific animals were killed. By the Associated Press.
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It&#39;s like doing cold-case detective work on elephants, but University of Washington scientist Samuel Wasser has devised an innovative method for pinpointing the DNA fingerprints of poached elephant tusks.
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Scientists have been sailing across the Atlantic in a bid to track down sand from the Sahara Desert.
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A genetic test that can be used to determine the origin of poached ivory could help combat the illegal trade in elephant tusks and their products.
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When elephants were removed from a research site in Kenya, a mysterious decline in the colonies of good ants and a growth in the colonies of bad ants emerged.
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SURIN, Thailand  - Sucking up sugarcane with their trunks and circling busy traffic roundabouts, the elephants that roam Thai towns at festival time seem as much at home in the city as in the forest.
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Conservationists hope chillies and hi-tech geophones will help protect fields from elephants in Congo Republic, where villagers are fed up with pachyderms eating their crops.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Beijing Customs Officers Seize Around 70 Kg of Ivory Products" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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That exquisite little carved-ivory elephant for sale on eBay could be an illegal piece of African elephant tusk.
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study being reported Tuesday estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last...
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Officials at Chicago&#39;s Lincoln Park Zoo are testing elephants and keepers for tuberculosis after the death of a 35-year-old female African elephant.
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Four museums in California are searched for antiquities allegedly smuggled from south east Asia.
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Radio frequency identification tags, usually used to track commercial products, are helping researchers study the movements of Amazonian peccaries.
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THE HAGUE -- African nations agreed yesterday to a massive ivory sell-off and a nine-year freeze on further sales, in a move conservationists hoped would mean a reprieve for elephant herds from poachers and smuggling syndicates.
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International wildlife experts have  located hundreds of wild elephants on a treeless island in the  swamps of south Sudan, where they apparently avoided unchecked  hunting during more than 20 years of war.