GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route
Publisher: NPR
Date: 2015
Topics: Renewable Resources
Countries: Congo (DRC), Sudan
Some 30,000 African elephants die each year as a result of poaching, and many of their ivory tusks wind up hundreds or thousands of miles away. Investigative journalist Bryan Christy wanted to track the route of the poached tusks, so he commissioned a taxidermist to create two fake ivory tusks, which he embedded with specially designed tracking devices.