I need Schreger lines too, George, I say, referring to the cross-hatching on the butt of a sawn tusk that looks like growth rings of a tree trunk. "As a result there were large numbers of soldiers in the area and a lot of associated. Why are you collecting ivory? Otti demanded of Kony. Fifty percent will be tuskless. 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. b. percentage of elephants killed . In the United States, Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama supported efforts either to arrest or kill him. Katy Payne/The Elephant Listening Project, Former Commando Turns Conservationist To Save Elephants Of Dzanga Bai. He said they bury sealed buckets of water along parched travel routes and bury ivory for safekeeping as well. Dry season in, rainy season out. But it could take a long time for tusked females to become as common as they once were. In a public square in Am Timan, shortly before his trial, he shouted, I know who betrayed me! The relationship is close: SAF warns Kony if theres trouble, Onen says. Using Kermeens technology, he could adjust how many times a day they tried to communicate with a satellite via the Internet. Boko Haram also uses the bush as a baseNigerias Sambisa Forest, a game reserve south of Lake Chad. It was just impossible to stay. Please make a tax-deductible gift today. PHOTO EDITOR: Kathy Moran. World Elephant Day: Ten reasons we love elephants, Elephants counted from space for conservation project. Click the arrow below to hear the amazing audio tale they brought home. They had nowhere to run." Which raises the question: If ivory is poached by Sudanese, where is it going? She had gone to Africa to do aid work, but was drawn to the intricate lives of these elephants. Poachers killed at least 132 last year, and as of this June, rangers had discovered another 42 carcasses with bullet holes, more than 30 attributed to a single Sudanese poaching expeditiona combined loss amounting to more than 10 percent of the parks entire population of elephants, estimated now to be no more than about 1,500. National Geographic commissioned the creation of artificial tusks with hidden GPS trackers that were planted in the smuggling supplychain. But Onen got his way. Its rare that you get such a dramatic example, says co-author Robert Pringle, an ecologist at Princeton. ", Andrea Turkalo sketched the ears and other details of the elephants she studied to help identify them. In 2002, NPR host and correspondent Alex Chadwick and sound engineer Bill McQuay went to central Africa to see and gather sound from the rare forest elephants of the Dzanga bai. As we talk over my design needs, Dantes brown eyes sparkle like a boys on Christmas morning. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Large-tusked elephants in Gorongosa were killed for their ivory, which was sold to buy arms and ammunition. During the summer Konys soldiers had killed 25 elephants in Garamba, and they were on their way back to Kony carrying the ivory. 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. We can't change the last bit we can shape the future. Rogue militias and army soldiers from the DRC, Sudan, and South Sudan are slaughtering elephants in the park. 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. Killings of civilians have likewise dropped, from 1,252 in 2009 to 13 in 2014, but abductions are rising again, and it takes the arrival of only a few of the armed militants to send fear ricocheting through communities. My artificial tusks sit motionless for several weeks, a pair of tear-shaped blue dots on my computer screen, which displays a digital map of the eastern corner of CAR. 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. Female elephants in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique evolved to be tuskless in response to intense hunting. This project was made possible by a grant from The WoodtigerFund. Eventually, more than four tons was found, Africas largest seizure since the global ivory trade ban took effect in 1990. EVERY SINGLE animal on this planet is special and this doesn't happen to monkeys or crocodiles or birds does it? VIDEO: J.J. Kelley, NG Studios. Congos own soldiers threaten the parks southern border, and villagers around the park sometimes poach elephants too. East Africa is now ground zero for much of the poaching. 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. Otti was furious, Onen says. Garamba National Park, in the northeast corner of the DRC and on the border with South Sudan, is a UNESCO World Heritage site, internationally famous for its elephants and its boundless ocean of green. Tusk inheritance patterns in the ElephantVoices database backed up that assumption. And I gotta find a way to get that shine, Dante says, referring to the gloss a clean elephant tusk has. 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. In presenting that case, ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo underscored Bashirs control of the groups said to be behind Sudans ivory trafficking: He used the army, he enrolled the Militia/Janjaweed. EVERY SINGLE animal on this planet is special and this doesn't happen to monkeys or crocodiles or birds does it? All around me I hear the click-clack of automatic weapons being loaded. Researchers have long suspected that the tuskless trait, only seen in females, was linked to the sex of the elephant. This story was originally published in the September 2015 issue of National Geographicmagazine. Next, researchers wanted to pin down the mechanism of inheritance for tusklessness. There, Onen says, Konys men trade ivory with the Sudanese military for salt, sugar, and arms. They shift a few miles. Fifty percent of her sons will be tusked, but that other 50% would die. Since the 2008-09 attack by Konys soldiers, rangers have finished building a new headquarters and acquired two airplanes and a helicopter. Kiev's troops have big Nazi problem - ex-US soldier who escaped Ukraine; DESTRUCTION OF OUR CULTURE HAS SUCCEEDED; Most Ukrainian Soldiers On Bakhmut Front-Line Killed 'Within 4 Hours' URGENT: mRNAs jabs may have caused tens of millions of serious new health problems worldwide, a huge peer-reviewed study shows When he shows up, he picks up a tusk and runs his finger over the butt end. Quintin Kermeen, 51, based in Concord, California, has the credentials, and the personality, Im looking for. Written in Acholi, it details Konys order for a hundred elephant tusks. We meet over Skype. She looks at the floor while her friends whisper to each other, smile radiantly, and nibble on cookies weve brought for them. RESEARCH: Heidi Schultz, Brad Scriber. MCCAMMON: Around 90% of the elephants there were killed, but many female elephants without tusks survived and thrived. Mostup to 3,000were poached from 2005 to 2008. for their meat. So if a tuskless mom had babies CAMPBELL-STATON: She has a 50% chance of passing the trait on to her offspring. We protect the park to give the people something of value. He fights for elephants because he knows that without the animals presence, no one will support Garamba, and the parkwhich he calls Africas heartwill be lost. Ivory poachers are killing some 22,000 African elephants a year. In this scene from the documentary Explorer: Warlords of Ivory, a screener at Tanzanias airport accuses Bryan Christy of smuggling. Konys response was immediate and savage. Elephants without tusks were normally left alone by hunters, so this made it more likely they would breed and pass on the tuskless trait to their children. With an average of 16 years in the bush with the LRA, the men bring a wealth of experience to the hunt for Kony and his fighters. In three weeks Konys brutes killed more than 800 people and kidnapped more than 160 children. 4. To identify the elephants, Turkalo learned to draw the animals' ears each ear's shape and markings are unique to each individual. First, Campbell-Staton wanted to make sure the proportion of tuskless elephants in Mozambique had indeed changed. The women motored downriver toward the Democratic Republic of Congo. Im a problem solver., I laugh. Copyright 2021 NPR. 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. That's so terrible! NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. There were armed combatants roaming the countryside. 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. In fact, she tells us, two weeks later she went back to the bai something we found pretty astonishing given the circumstances of the civil war. Five of the worlds least stable nations, as ranked by the Washington, D.C.-based organization the Fund for Peace, are home to people who travel to other countries to kill elephants. 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. After three weeks the tusks turn north again, back into Sudan. Turkalo clearly would rather be back in Africa than in a coffee house in Rhode Island. Although the adaptation comes with a pricean associated genetic mutation kills male elephants before they're bornthe emerging trait may have helped save the population. 'They seem like white elephants . They included South Sudanese armed forces (SPLA) and Sudanese military, as well as defectors from those militaries and an assortment of Sudan-based rebels. In Zimbabwe, a recent survey shows massive losses in some parks. Ivory operates as a savings account for Kony, says Marty Regan, of the U.S. State Departments Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. They killed fewer elephants per hunt but were much harder to track and stop. He asks for water for me and is led out of the building. That's painful to imagine, especially for anyone who's had the chance to watch these animals. That's just something to think about and consider really because it's absolutely RIDICULOUS that any animal should have to go through that. 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. In 1978, the elephant was listed as threatened under the United States' Endangered Species Act. To look for genes that might be involved, the team took blood from 18 female elephants in the park and sequenced their genomes. Its only the ivory that will make the LRA strong, he recalls Konysaying. Such genes ought to disappear, Roca says, because females that lack them would have more offspring. Where did the tusks end up? for their tusks. To her relief, the men turned out to be local. During the rains the park is more lake than land, and elephants split into two groups to escape the floods. Now, scientists say that drove some elephants to evolve tusklessness. My tusks will have to act like ivory. Since the 1980s, and beginning in Uganda, Konys minions are alleged to have killed tens of thousands of people, slicing the lips, ears, and breasts off women, raping children and women, chopping off the feet of those caught riding bicycles, and kidnapping young boys to create an army of child soldiers who themselves grow into killers. 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. I unzip my suitcase to expose two fake tusks and hand him letters from the U.S. Then they head south six miles, back into Kafia Kingi. The cook, Djimet Said (below), was shot but survived, walking 11 miles to the nearest village for help. Andrea Turkalo sketched the ears and other details of the elephants she studied to help identify them. Traits that are beneficial in one environment may not be beneficial in another. To follow my artificial tusks from the jungle to their final destination, I need a tracking device capable of transmitting exact locations without dead zones. Ranger Dieudonn Kumboyo Kobango, standing with his son, Genekpio, who escaped soon after the LRA seized him, says, I search for the LRA on every patrol.. Andrea Turkalo/The Elephant Listening Project, Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project. They can get what they want today, he said, and keep it there for two, three, or even more than five years.. These jumbo foragers are masterful engineers of their surroundings. 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. An adviser to the Ugandan military rejects the helicopter accusation, and suggests that the elephants might have been shot in the top of the head after they were down. Ongwen said Konys plan is to obtain as much ivory as possible for his future survival should he not be able to overthrow the government of Uganda.. Onen had been part of an LRA poaching operation in Garamba consisting of 41 fighters, including Konys son Salim. The rangers Im going out with have each been allocated a handful of rounds for old and unreliable AK-47s, most of them seized from poachers. 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. On some days more then 100 elephants at at a time visit the clearing. Elephant ivory is a key source of funding for armed groups in central Africa . From Garamba, Kony signaled his desire for peace with Uganda, sending emissaries to neutral Juba, in southern Sudan, to negotiate with Ugandan officials while he and his men lived unmolested in and around the park, protected by a cease-fire agreement. Ivory shops in Khartoum advertise in English and Chinese as well as Arabic. But it failed to rout Kony or his leadership. "I don't know which ones they killed," she replies. According to data stored in a GPS unit taken off the body of LRA commander Vincent Binany Okumu, who was killed in a 2013 firefight with African Union forces on his return from poaching in Garamba, this village is on the path of ivory headed to Konys base inDarfur. Researchers are still trying to pinpoint all the genetics that underpin . 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. So we Bill McQuay and Chris Joyce, who've worked together on stories from the mountains of China to the copper mines of Michigan recently decided to go see Turkalo and find out what happened. In village after village along the road between Father Sugules church and what is now South Sudan, I meet Kony victims who describe being fed elephant meat and how, after elephants were killed, militants took the ivory away. ", World Elephant Day: Ten facts about amazing elephants, Elephants and the ivory trade: The crisis in Africa, Safer Internet Day: Top tips for when you're online, Rescue services helping as big quake hits Turkey and Syria, We speak to Junior Bake Off champion about winning the show. 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). I want Dante to design an artificial elephant tusk that has the look and feel of confiscated tusks loaned to me by the U.S. But Dante, who is one of the worlds most respected taxidermists, has never done what Im asking him to do. Chad. Elephants gather in the Dzanga bai, a forest clearing the size of several football fields. Embattled park rangers are often the only defense for wildlife andvillagers. SHANE CAMPBELL-STATON: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute - they had this video that was called "The Tuskless Elephants Of Gorongosa." I know which house theyre in: Using Google Earth, I see its light-blue roof on my screen. Among the recent casualties was a group of rare forest elephants in the Central African Republic. They also had twice as many daughters as sons. a. percentage of elephants killed . Our next story begins in a place many of us are familiar with - up awake, watching a YouTube video at 3 in the morning. 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 . Learn more about the Explorer series. Meanwhile, flouting the cease-fire, his men crossed into CAR, where they kidnapped hundreds of children and made sex slaves of women they brought back to the park. CAMPBELL-STATON: But then I realized that there wasn't actually a lot of empirical data about what the response was from, you know, what the genetic basis of the trait was. Having worked extensively throughout central Africa, Froment transferred to Garamba in early 2014 after rangers discovered dozens of elephant carcasses in the park. In June the Tanzanian government announced that the country has lost 60 percent of its elephants in the past five years, down from 110,000 to fewer than 44,000. For ten years Khartoum supplied him with food, medicine, and arms, including automatic rifles, antiaircraft guns, rocket-propelled grenades, and mortars. 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. Wittemyer wonders whether a similar phenomenon happened long ago in Asia, because both male and female fossil elephants there have tusks, but among living Asian elephants, only males have tusks. CORNISH: Campbell-Staton had heard all of this before. "I heard they were on their way. Now, researchers report this intense hunting dramatically altered a major elephant population there, favoring female elephants born without tusks. Congolese soldiers undergo training by Mathieu Eckel of African Parks, an NGO that manages Garamba National Park with the DRCs parks authority. No, I want ivory for ammunition to keep fighting, was Konys reply, according to Onen, who was listening to transmissions. Rogue militias and army soldiers from the DRC, Sudan, and South Sudan are slaughtering elephants in the park. So far theyve traveled 600 miles from jungle to desert in just under two months. "The people on the shore, they started discharging their automatic weapons in the air," she remembers. 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. Another potential knock-on is changes to the broader landscape, as the study has revealed that tusked and tuskless animals eat different plants. AAAS is a partner of HINARI, AGORA, OARE, CHORUS, CLOCKSS, CrossRef and COUNTER. ", They were the Seleka the Muslim rebels who had overthrown the national government in the spring of 2013. 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science. ", But Turkalo's 22 years with those elephants came to a disastrous end last year, when civil war in the republic found its way to the Dzanga bai. Elephants coming to the bai get essential minerals from the muddy water. That evening, they floated by a village. It's called the Dzanga bai a clearing the size of several football fields that's rich in the mineralized mud that the elephants depend on. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Bill McQuay now works as a sound engineer with the National Public Radio - National Geographic Society Radio Expeditions Sound Collection at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library. TEXT EDITOR: Oliver Payne. ", Now, a year later, Andrea is stoic about the loss. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. In Mozambique, past hunting pressure led to an increase of . The family of Idriss Adoum (top, second from left) tracked one suspect to Sudan. The team calculated that 18.5 percent of female elephants did not have tusks before the war began. Locals, including poor villagers and unpaid park rangers, are killing elephants for casha risk theyre willing to take because even if theyre caught, the penalties are often negligible. Calculate the percentages of the illegally killed elephants between 2007 and 2013 represented by each group of elephants in Question 3. At the time Sudans north and south were in a civil war, and Kony offered Sudans government, in Khartoum, a way to destabilize the south. The LRA sells to the Sudan Armed Forces, Onen said. "I could hear the call and say, 'Yeah, that's a juvenile being pushed out of a hole by its mother; it's protesting.' After Lucienne Lanziwas husband died in an LRA attack on Garamba, she got a modest stipend. What can be done to help save the elephants? On September 11, 2014, Michael Onen, a sergeant in Konys army, walked out of Garamba National Park carrying an AK-47, five magazines of ammunition, and a story. Meanwhile, according to Onen, Konys men hid ivory by burying it in the ground or submerging it in rivers. Nov. 6, 1954. Here a ranger unit is permanently deployed to protect one of the parks most important assets: a radio tower that was being built. Other roads also lead to Sudan. They set up camp and in a four-month rampage killed up to 650 elephants. Hed grown up not far from Garamba at a time when it was possible to fly over the park and see 5,000 elephants in a single gathering. During the same period, neighboring Mozambique is reported to have lost 48 percent of its elephants. On our patrol we dont encounter any poachers or rebel groups. It is assumed that the girls were raped, so its difficult for them to find husbands. Achellam told me that Konys men planned for the future. Get more great content like this delivered right to you! Andrea Turkalo looks through a scope in 2002 from the observation platform she built along the edge of the bai. The rangers also recovered a stamped Sudanese army leave slip granting three soldiers permission to travel from Darfur to a town near the Chadian border. RENAMO also had imposed a system it called Gamdira whereby villagers were required to produce food, transport goods and ammunition, and village women were forced to be sex slaves. Fish and Wildlife Service. Two genes stood out: MEP1a and AMELX, which are active in tooth development in other mammals, were present in seven elephants with tusks, but had unique mutations in 11 tuskless elephants. Mozambique's elephants declined from an estimated 20,000 to 10,300 during the same period. Forest elephants linger on a misty morning at the Dzanga bai. c. percentage of elephants killed for . Then, like a bobber in a fishing hole, a nibble. All of central Africa is a hand grenade, its pin pulled by a history of resource exploitation from abroad, dictatorships, and poverty. 19/129 = 14.7%. The park has lost all its rhinos to poaching for their horns. Sudan. Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project, Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project. "It was the 24th of March," she says. FANIE PELLETIER: It's one of the most detailed example of how human activity can influence the genes of a population. "There's such a blizzard of depressing news about biodiversity and humans in the environment and I think it's important to emphasise that there are some bright spots in that picture. A crowd gathers. 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. I just can't understand why anyone would want to take away any of the amazing qualities and features of an elephant. Turkalo is compact and direct, and wears her dark hair pulled back in a bun. "But I'm certain I knew a few of the elephants they killed," she says including some that the NPR team had recorded. Normally both male and female African elephants have tusks, which are really a pair of massive teeth. When north and south Sudan signed a peace agreement in 2005, Kony lost his Sudanese host. 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. But after Otti left Garamba to participate in the peace talks, Kony began killing elephants for ivory. But a new study suggests there is a serious reason for why lots of tuskless elephants can now be found in the country of Mozambique in Africa - poaching. See the article in its original context from. After months of tinkering, Kermeens final bespoke ivory-tracking device arrives in the mail. A study in Gorongosa revealed that while male elephants did have tusks but almost 50% of female elephants above the age of 20 did not. It was the rainy season, and the rangers, like the elephants they were guarding, had left the park for higher ground. Between April 25 and June 17, poachers killed two Garamba rangers and two army . Or will they go nowhere, discovered before theyre moved and turned in by an honest person? That's where Princeton evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton found himself a few years ago. It was to become her home, and her life's work. Like much of the world, George Dante knows that the African elephant is under siege. Sudan is also a well-documented supplier of ivory to Egypt and is the recipient of substantial Chinese infrastructure investment, which typically comes with Chinese workers, a source of ivory smuggling in many parts of Africa. 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