Poaching

Radioactive Carbon Dating Can Help Fight Poachers, New Research Shows

Researchers from the University of Utah have come up with a novel method to fight the illegal poaching of animals such as elephants. All it requires is measuring the radioactive carbon-14 present in the tusks.

Elephant Ivory Bad, Rhino Horn Good? World Trade Reps Consider Ways to Stem Illegal Animal Trade As Poaching On Track For Record Year

The future of elephants, rhinoceroses and other imperiled species such as sharks, turtles could be decided this month at an international meeting on wildlife trade regulation in Bangkok, Thailand.Delegates from the 178 countries that have signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known simply as CITES, are meeting now through March 14.

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