Samuel Wasser is a conservation biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, and an outspoken opponent of elephant poaching. He talks to Emma Marris about his genetic methods for tracing poached ivory.
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Marris, E. The tusk detective. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news070702-12
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