National Geographic hid GPS trackers within artificial elephant tusks inward gild to runway the merchandise routes used inward the illegal smuggling of ivory. Tracking the Illegal Tusk Trade maps the journeying of the artificial tusks from the due south eastward of the Central African Republic to Ed Daein inward Sudan.
The tusks were transported 592 miles inward total. At their latest known place the temperature sensors inward the tusks advise they are similar a shot beingness held within a edifice or buried beneath the ground.
As good equally showing the road taken past times the smugglers of the artificial tusks this National Geographic interactive includes maps of elephant poaching hotspots inward Africa, the merchandise routes used past times the smugglers in addition to the principal locations where the tusks are exported from Africa to Asia.
