National Geographic hid GPS trackers within artificial elephant tusks inwards lodge to rails the merchandise routes used inwards the illegal smuggling of ivory. Tracking the Illegal Tusk Trade maps the journeying of the artificial tusks from the due south E of the Central African Republic to Ed Daein inwards Sudan.
The tusks were transported 592 miles inwards total. At their latest known place the temperature sensors inwards the tusks propose they are straightaway existence held within a edifice or buried beneath the ground.
As good every moment showing the road taken past times the smugglers of the artificial tusks this National Geographic interactive includes maps of elephant poaching hotspots inwards Africa, the merchandise routes used past times the smugglers together with the principal locations where the tusks are exported from Africa to Asia.
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