Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project, Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project. Members of the Ugandan armys dog-tracking team lift weights at the African Union base in Obo, CAR. FANIE PELLETIER: It's one of the most detailed example of how human activity can influence the genes of a population. It hadnt explodedyet. One moves north toward Heban, the other west toward centralChad. The Ugandan military finally attacked Konys Garamba camps in late 2008. Show your work. Such a biased sex ratio would be expected with a recessive gene that kills males when they inherit it. In a public square in Am Timan, shortly before his trial, he shouted, I know who betrayed me! Money is available to outfit the rangers with better equipment, but buying new weapons requires formal approval of the Congolese army, something Froment has been unable to get. According to Cline Sissler-Bienvenu, Francophone Africa director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, who led a group into the park after the slaughter, the poachers were most likely from Darfurs Rizeigat tribal group, with ties to the janjaweedthe violent, Sudanese-government-backed militias that have committed atrocities in Darfur. "I could hear the call and say, 'Yeah, that's a juvenile being pushed out of a hole by its mother; it's protesting.' But Dante, who is one of the worlds most respected taxidermists, has never done what Im asking him to do. for their meat. Copyright 2021 NPR. During a civil war in the country, that lasted from 1977 to 1992, up to 90% of Mozambique's elephant population was killed, mainly for their ivory tusks. But in central Africa, as I learned firsthand, something more sinister is driving the killing: Militias and terrorist groups funded in part by ivory are poaching elephants, often outside their home countries, and even hiding inside national parks. But one of the murdered men, Idriss Adoum, had a younger brother, Saleh, who resolved that, when the rains stopped, he and a cousin would hunt the killers in Sudan, where so many ivory roads lead. EVERY SINGLE animal on this planet is special and this doesn't happen to monkeys or crocodiles or birds does it? The rangers on Heban hill had little reason to be concerned for their safety. You can hear the original field recordings and interviews from Radio Expedition's 2002 elephant story, and see photos and night-vision video from the elephant bai, on the archive's website. But time is stalking our team: Months later, on April 25, 2015, while on patrol, the ranger who led me into Garamba, Agoyo Mbikoyo, was shot and killed by a gang of poachers. But ammunition is in perilously short supplynot even enough for basic trainingand the rangers largest weapon, a belt-fed machine gun, tends to jam every third round or so. CORNISH: That's Fanie Pelletier, a wildlife biologist in Canada who wasn't involved in the work. World Elephant Day: Ten reasons we love elephants, Elephants counted from space for conservation project. hide caption. The results suggest that by killing elephants for their tusks, poachers selected for mutated versions of AMELX and MEP1a, which spread in the population and made tuskless elephants more common. We need your help to protect elephants and report on wildlife crime. The men of the Hippotrague unit assumed that after the previous teams raid, the poachers had all fled home. The result was. During the rains the park is more lake than land, and elephants split into two groups to escape the floods. CORNISH: Campbell-Staton had heard all of this before. We can't change the last bit we can shape the future. I arrive at what amounts to the park rangers northern front, an outpost vulnerable both to Sudanese poachers and Konys army. A white elephant is a valuable item that has a rate that perhaps surpasses its usefulness. And I was like, ooh, what's this? The family of Idriss Adoum (top, second from left) tracked one suspect to Sudan. Andrea says all she was able to rescue were electronic copies of her research data. PELLETIER: The reason why that's important is because if you stop the killing right now, you know, the time it would take for the population to, you know, restore that traits would be much longer. Ivory operates as a savings account for Kony, says Marty Regan, of the U.S. State Departments Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. HOW MANY TIMES ?? Five of the six men in Zakoumas Hippotrague patrol unit were killed by elephant poachers outside the park; the sixth is presumed dead. Arent you interested in peace talks?. The poaching issue is a governance issue, Froment says. Meanwhile, according to Onen, Konys men hid ivory by burying it in the ground or submerging it in rivers. Otti liked elephants, Onen recalled, and forbade their killing. It is believed they do this either to cool themselves off or as a reaction to the annoyance of parasites of the skin. From the moment of his capture, Onen says, he was a complainer. All of central Africa is a hand grenade, its pin pulled by a history of resource exploitation from abroad, dictatorships, and poverty. for their tusks. In June three more Garamba-based officers were killed. "When it gets bad we leave.". DNA suggests that some of the ivory is from elephants killed in May 2013 at Dzanga Bai in CAR. "It's another example of the imprint of [human] effect on nature," says wildlife ecologist George Wittemyer of Colorado State University, who was not involved in the research. In May 2013 poachers with the insurgent group Seleka massacred 26 elephants at Dzanga Bai, amineral-rich watering hole in CAR. 4. Outnumbered and ill equipped, theyre manning the front line in a violent battle that affects us all. Ive met more than a thousand children who have been abducted, he says as we talk inside his church in the nearby town of Dungu. Sudan is not on these lists, even though Sudanese poachers are a primary reason elephants are killed in several of the countries listed by CITES as of primary or secondary concern. Researchers in Mozambique found a . My tusks will have to act like ivory. So why elephants? Dzanga Baialso known as the village of elephantsis a mineral-rich mudhole where the animalscongregate. East Africa is now ground zero for much of the poaching. The U.S. State Department named Kony a specially designated global terrorist in 2008, and the African Union has designated the LRA a terrorist organization. During the civil war in Mozambique, soldiers killed elephants with tusks in order to sell the ivory, so fewer elephants with tusks survived. Rogue militias and army soldiers from the DRC, Sudan, and South Sudan are slaughtering elephants in the park. They set up camp and in a four-month rampage killed up to 650 elephants. PELLETIER: The reason why that's important is because if you stop the killing right now, you know, the time it would take for the population to, you know, restore that traits would be much longer now that there's been a change in the genes than if it wasn't. It was still too dangerous, Turkalo decided, so she made her escape by boat a second time. CAMPBELL-STATON: You know, people during the Mozambican Civil War were not thinking about the evolution of elephants, I imagine, in the slightest. He said they bury sealed buckets of water along parched travel routes and bury ivory for safekeeping as well. It was just after 4 a.m. on Heban hill, in Chad, 80 miles from the Sudanese border and 60 miles northeast of Zakouma National Park, home to the countrys largest remaining elephant herd, 450 animals. The result: Some 30,000 African elephants are slaughtered every year, more than 100,000 between 2010 and 2012, and the pace of killing is not slowing. An official in Dar es Salaams international airport, in Tanzaniaone of several countries I scouted for launching my tusks into the illegal tradesquints at an x-ray screen as my luggage rolls through hisscanner. But after Otti left Garamba to participate in the peace talks, Kony began killing elephants for ivory. We'll tell you more about them Friday, on NPR's Morning Edition. Its hissanctuary.. We meet in a busy coffee shop full of students from nearby Brown University. Most illegal ivory goes to China, where a pair of ivory chopsticks can bring more than a thousand dollars and carved tusks sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. a. percentage of elephants killed only for their meat 19/129 = 14.7% b. percentage of elephants killed only for their tusks 75/129 = 58.1% c. percentage of elephants killed for both their tusks and meat 27/129 = 20.9% 5. It consists of a battery capable of lasting more than a year, a GPS receiver, an Iridium satellite transceiver, and a temperature sensor. Calculate the percentages of the illegally killed elephants between 2007 and 2013 represented by each group of elephants in Question 3. Poaching has been curbed in Chads Zakouma National Park, but rebuilding the parks herd, now at 450, will take years. Around us stroll Ugandan army soldiers, who make up the entire African Union contingent based in Obo and are committed to finding and killing Kony. When he returns hours later, he has three chicken dinners and several bottles of beer, paid for by the police chief. At the same time, the apartheid government and the Smith regime lost Portugal as an ally and with it the tens of thousands of soldiers that had been deployed in the Portuguese colonial wars. 3. Now its under siege for its ivory, mainly by rogue soldiers from national armies and by the terrorist group the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). Veteran ranger Jean Claude Mambo Marindo sits beside almost a hundred tusks seized from elephant poachers at Garamba National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Issa claimed he was merely a lookout, not a poacher. The story typically would have ended with the wanton killing of these park rangers protecting elephants. Now, says the parks director, Rian Labuschagne, of African Parks, my biggest fear is that theyll start coming in pairs.. When Ele, a female elephant, died, other elephants approached one-by-one and touched their trunks to the body. CORNISH: The upshot, which they published this week in the journal Science, is that females without tusks are pretty likely to have tuskless babies, which is why the trait was becoming so prevalent. Their own families are afraid that theyre devils, or forever soldiers, who might kill them in the night. All rights reserved. At the sound of a twig cracking or the detection of an unexpected scent on the wind, a ranger in front of me, Agoyo Mbikoyo, signals caution, and I drop with the team into a collective crouch and wait silently. It was thanks largely to efforts by the group Invisible Children and its video Kony 2012 that Kony became a household name in the West. when will hunters get the message we need other species alive on our planet for our own species to survive . I'm outraged as to how some people have the audacity to kill these inconncent , sentient creatures who , like most animals help keep the food chain stable. Soldiers Kill Wild Elephant. The reason why the soldiers killed the elephants was to gain ammunition and arms from the money received after selling their ivory. In March 2015 Boko Harams leader, Abubakar Shekau, pledged allegiance to ISIS, and his group was renamed Islamic States West Africa Province, giving that Middle East terrorist group a foothold in WestAfrica. They killed fewer elephants per hunt but were much harder to track and stop. Do not lose even one tusk, he instructed the group, according to Onen, who said the plan was to carry the ivory to a rendezvous in CAR and then on to a market town in Darfur called Songo, not far from the Sudan Armed Forces garrison in Dafaq. They have flashbacks. According to Col. Mike Kabango, of the African Union forces, the image shows a large tent and two smaller ones; to Ryan Stage, a remote-sensing specialist in Colorado, it shows a large truck and two small tents. Widows now get a sum equal to six years of a rangers salary. Their lack of tusks was thought to be a consequence of another human creationthe Mozambican civil war, which lasted from 1977 to 1992 and was partly paid for by the killing of elephants for . Like much of the world, George Dante knows that the African elephant is under siege. The focus of the series was on nature, diverse cultures, and endangered environments.Its intent, according its creator Carolyn Jensen, who passed away in 2010, was to give listeners the sound equivalent of National Geographic photos. Issa, who is Chadian, said he joined the team of three Sudanese men and that together they rode more than two weeks to get to Heban, where they killed nine elephants in four days. An estimated 25,000 elephants are killed every year in Africa for their tusks, double the number killed in 2007. Theyre looting communities, enslaving people, and killing park rangers who get in their way. But it failed to rout Kony or his leadership. Our next story begins in a place many of us are familiar with - up awake, watching a YouTube video at 3 in the morning. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Thousands of elephants die each year so that their tusks can be carved into religious objects. Inside the fake tusk, I want him to embed a custom-made GPS and satellite-based tracking system. Once the war and poaching ended, elephants with tusks were more likely to survive because they could use their tusks to find water and food. We were expecting to find an amazing new world of sound to record, and the experience lived up to its reputation the insects, the tropical downpours, and of course the cacophony of the elephants themselves. The poachers opened fire, killing five rangers. Subscribe to News from Science for full access to breaking news and analysis on research and science policy. It's run by a band of men who, if not exactly soldiers-of-fortune, certainly are trained warriors. Theyre in a place 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the ambient temperature, so perhaps theyve been buried in the backyard. It was used to make combs, pool balls, knick-knacks, and even piano keys. He said: "We actually expect that this syndrome will decrease in frequency in our study population, provided that the conservation picture continues to stay as positive as it has been recently. His army farmed vegetables. While Dante set about embedding Kermeens tracker inside his tusk mold, a third team member, John Flaig, a specialist in near-space, balloon-based photographyimages taken from at least the height of spy planeswas preparing to monitor the tusks as they moved. For example, tuskless motherswho would have had one copy of the dominant tuskless gene, from their own mothershad the same number of daughters with and without tusks. From Garamba, Kony sent an exploratory team to Darfur to look into forging a new relationship with the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), who had supported him against Uganda, hoping to exchange ivory for rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons. Ugandan soldiers with the African Unions Regional Task Force hunt for LRA leader Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic (CAR), pulling themselves along ropes to cross rivers. Onen is short and looks even smaller wearing a camouflage-patterned Ugandan army uniform thats too long for him in the sleeves. But Onen got his way. Their path is consistent with the route Konys defectors tell me ivory takes on the way to the warlords Kafia Kingi base. That's painful to imagine, especially for anyone who's had the chance to watch these animals. "I can never get too emotionally attached to things there," she says of central Africa, "because otherwise you set yourself up for a lot of disappointment. Professor Pringle said it was possible to reverse this trait over time as long as work to recover elephant populations from the brink of extinction continues. PRODUCER: Janey Adams. In humans, a mutated version of AMELX is linked to male death before birth; in females, that version stunts the growth of the upper incisors, the same teeth that become tusks in elephants. Several Tanzanian officers who had presided over my arrest at the airport, including the wildlife expert, returned the next day to wish us bon voyage. It was used to make combs, pool balls, knick-knacks, and even piano keys. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a treaty organization that governs international trade in ivoryand its continuing banhas identified eight countries of primary concern when it comes to international ivory trafficking: China, Kenya, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Uganda, Tanzania, and Vietnam. Between April 25 and June 17, poachers killed two Garamba rangers and two army . Turkalo is now part of an extraordinary operation to protect the surviving forest elephants. We are in charge of the futures of our animals and earth and making a world for future generations to thrive in. Five of the six men in Zakoumas Hippotrague patrol unit were killed by elephant poachers outside the park; the sixth is presumed dead. She turned her life around to be near them, settling in a rough camp in the rainforest and building an observation platform where she could safely watch the animals that congregate there. Bryan Christy sets out on his groundbreaking mission to track down the kingpins of the ivory trade. Shane Campbell-Staton, an evolutionary biologist now at Princeton University, was curious about the elephants of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, where tuskless elephantswhich are all femaleare unusually common. Campbell-Staton points out that other species in Gorongosa rely on elephants having tusks to dig up holes for water and strip bark from trees. Kermeen started in the radio-tracking business when he was 15 and has since built electronic trackers and collars for wildlife from Andean bears to California condors to Tasmanian devils. Other roads also lead to Sudan. This behavior is associated with mourning, field researchers say. We protect the elephant to protect the park. Mozambique's elephants declined from an estimated 20,000 to 10,300 during the same period. 75/129 = 58.1%. So I said to myself, 'I better go into a very passive mode.' Elephants without tusks were normally. 5. I didn't go looking for this. To enjoy the CBBC Newsround website at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on. Today, poaching has stopped in Gorongosa, and the elephant population is recovering. I just can't understand why anyone would want to take away any of the amazing qualities and features of an elephant. But when I ask a gathering of children and elders in the village of Kpaika, about 30 miles from the parks western border, how many of them have visited Garamba, no one raises a hand. Its easier to live with things, she says. Soumaine Abdoulaye Issa had been in Darfur, he told a team of African Parks investigators, when he heard about an elephant poaching mission to Chad led by a member of the Sudan Armed Forces. A welcome sight returns to Zakouma: babies. Meanwhile, as leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S. strategize about how to stop the ever expanding network of international terrorist organizations, somewhere in Africa a park ranger stands his post, holding an AK-47 and a handful of bullets, manning the front line for all of us. Margaret Acino was 23, pregnant, working in the fields near Gulu, Uganda, when an LRA commander called for a razor and ordered his boy soldiers to slice off her lips, ears, and nose. So support charities who put a stop to that. When he shows up, he picks up a tusk and runs his finger over the butt end. Editor's Note: Viewers may find the next image from the 2013 elephant slaughter disturbing. Between April 25 and June 17, poachers killed two Garamba rangers and two army officers assisting with patrols. ", Andrea Turkalo sketched the ears and other details of the elephants she studied to help identify them. One of them knew one of the women in the boat. We meet over Skype. On some days more then 100 elephants at at a time visit the clearing. Researchers looked at why female elephants in Gorongosa national park in Mozambique were frequently born without tusks, and found that the animals were in effect genetically engineered by mass . MCCAMMON: Around 90% of the elephants there were killed, but many female elephants without tusks survived and thrived. Turkalo clearly would rather be back in Africa than in a coffee house in Rhode Island. MCCAMMON: But the number of tuskless elephants was multiplying in Mozambique during and after the country's decades-long civil war, which ended in 1992. Seleka rebels had a stock of about 300 ivory tusks that they sold, which enabled them to get the supplies that helped them overthrow President Franois Boziz in CAR, Ongwen told African Union forces, according to his debriefing. Without the stress of poaching, the elephants started breeding again, and more than 40 calves have been born. She well remembers the day when the war came to the bai. For his Judas pig project he built GPS satellite collars to enable pest control authorities in New Zealand to send feral pigs into the bush and locate their invasive piggy friends. (Special thanks to the National Public Radio - National Geographic Society Radio Expeditions Sound Collection at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, for sharing the audio.). By the time you read this, my tusks might have gone to Khartoum. And someoneits unclear whois believed to be killing elephants from helicopters, as evidenced by bullet holes in the tops of skulls and the removal of tusks by what can only be chain saws. Turkalo had lived through civil strife before, but this time, she tells us, it was much worse. On the 15th day after they began to move, they cross into South Sudan and from there make their way into the Kafia Kingi enclave, a disputed territory in Darfur controlled bySudan. CORNISH: You see; while most African elephants have tusks, some female African elephants are born without them and never grow them. Female elephants do use their tusks, but female elephants in Mozambique are doing just fine without them, according to Long. His control is absolute.. Albert Roca, a geneticist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, calls the shift striking in its speedand because it is driven by people. Click the arrow below to hear the amazing audio tale they brought home. The Central African Republic was peaceful back then. Here a ranger unit is permanently deployed to protect one of the parks most important assets: a radio tower that was being built. See the article in its original context from. During the civil war between 1977 to 1992, poachers sold the ivory to finance the conflict, including buying arms and ammunition. Father Sugule introduces me to three young girls, recent LRA kidnapping victims, who are sitting on a wooden bench in his church. 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