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GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

Baby elephants are a welcome sight in Zakouma National Park in Chad. Thanks to stepped-up enforcement, the park hasn't lost an elephant to poachers since 2012. Without the stress of poaching, the elephants started breeding again and more than 40 calves have been born. Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty Images for National Geographic Magazine hide caption

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GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

Some 30,000 African elephants die each year as a result of poaching. Journalist Bryan Christy wanted to see where their tusks were going, so he ordered fake tusks and fitted them with trackers.

GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

Baby elephants are a welcome sight in Zakouma National Park in Chad. Thanks to stepped-up enforcement, the park hasn't lost an elephant to poachers since 2012. Without the stress of poaching, the elephants started breeding again and more than 40 calves have been born. Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty Images for National Geographic Magazine hide caption

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Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty Images for National Geographic Magazine

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GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

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