Three Major Cartels Exposed for Large Shipments of Illegal Ivory (4 of 14) (IMAGE)

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Three Major Cartels Exposed for Large Shipments of Illegal Ivory (4 of 14)

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African elephants examine a bone from a fellow elephant. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sep. 19, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.K. Wasser at University of Washington in Seattle, WA, and colleagues was titled, "Combating transnational organized crime by linking multiple large ivory seizures to the same dealer."

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