With ivory poaching on the rise throughout Africa, WHWT is taking a proactive roll in assisting with taking samples of commercially poached elephant on the ground. These samples are then sent to to Dr. Samuel Wasser at the Center for Conservation Biology, at the University of Washington, in the U.S. Dr. Wasser had found a way of extracting DNA from ivory that is siezed, and mapping that DNA back to a Region in Africa....Click here to learn more about this project |