Ivory poachers are killing some 22,000 African elephants a year. So I said to myself, 'I better go into a very passive mode.' Its hissanctuary.. Eight more are considered of secondary concern: Cameroon, Congo, the DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mozambique, and Nigeria. An estimated 25,000 elephants are killed every year in Africa for their tusks, double the number killed in 2007. Turkalo clearly would rather be back in Africa than in a coffee house in Rhode Island. The tension broke. By Bryan ChristyPhotographs by Brent StirtonPublished August 12, 2015. Professor Robert Pringle of Princeton University said: "Tusklessness might be advantageous during a war, but that comes at a cost.". In 1994 Kony left Uganda and took his murderous gang on the road. This limited the trade of some ivory, but trade still continued across the world. When humans hunt, they can cause their quarry to evolve by targeting individuals with particular traits, like big fish or sheep with hefty horns. Written in Acholi, it details Konys order for a hundred elephant tusks. If we've learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it's that we cannot wait for a crisis to respond. Michael Onen, the defector from Konys army, told me that the LRA and the janjaweed had battled over ivory, with one group robbing the other, and that it was the janjaweeds success in trading ivory that originally gave Kony the idea to start killing elephants. Fifty percent of her sons will be tusked, but that other 50% would die. The relationship is close: SAF warns Kony if theres trouble, Onen says. Im not an animal lover, he snaps. "I can never get too emotionally attached to things there," she says of central Africa, "because otherwise you set yourself up for a lot of disappointment. She looks at the floor while her friends whisper to each other, smile radiantly, and nibble on cookies weve brought for them. Zakouma National Park has lost nearly 90 percent of its elephants since 2002. for their meat. On some days more then 100 elephants at at a time visit the clearing. Onen had been part of an LRA poaching operation in Garamba consisting of 41 fighters, including Konys son Salim. CORNISH: So he made some calls and assembled a team. A crowd gathers. By 1913, the African elephant population had dropped to an estimated 10 million. From March 2014 to March 2015, Garambas rangers recorded 31 contacts with armed poachers, more than half of whom were with groups traveling south from the direction of South Sudan and Sudan. "It's another example of the imprint of [human] effect on nature," says wildlife ecologist George Wittemyer of Colorado State University, who was not involved in the research. 'They seem like white elephants . 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. Sudanese and Chadian poachers were likewise implicated in the 2013 butchering of nearly 90 elephantsincluding 33 pregnant females as well as newborn calvesnear Tikem, Chad, not far from Bouba Ndjidah. 4. It was the rainy season, and the rangers, like the elephants they were guarding, had left the park for higher ground. If he can do this, Ill ask him to make several more tusks. Tusklessness, according to a new paper in Science, can be attributed in large part to a dominant mutation on the X chromosome a genetic change that also explains the sex skew Poole saw. 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. 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Meanwhile, as leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S. strategize about how to stop the ever expanding network of international terrorist organizations, somewhere in Africa a park ranger stands his post, holding an AK-47 and a handful of bullets, manning the front line for all of us. But seeing it in front of you, and knowing those individuals are related, that makes my day. Together we can make a difference. East Africa is now ground zero for much of the poaching. That members of the Sudanese military trade arms for ivory with the LRA raises questions about the highest levels of Sudans government. 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. 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. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. 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. All rights reserved. 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. "We gave them a little money and said the Seleka were coming," says Turkalo. The Elephant Listening Project To use comments you will need to have JavaScript enabled. By 1913, the African elephant population had dropped to an estimated 10 million. Do we really need to sell ivory tusks in the world just to make money? As far as Onen knew, the poaching squad he abandoned was still making its way north from Garamba through CAR to Sudan. "During the war, Gorongosa was essentially the geographic center of the conflict," Long said via email. See the article in its original context from. Use the evidence above to make a claim about the main reason elephants were illegally killed in this region. They shot 26 elephants and cut out their tusks. It is believed they do this either to cool themselves off or as a reaction to the annoyance of parasites of the skin. A few days later the tusks proceed to Songo, the Sudanese market town where Onen said Konys men trade ivory. It was just after 4 a.m. on Heban hill, in Chad, 80 miles from the Sudanese border and 60 miles northeast of Zakouma National Park, home to the countrys largest remaining elephant herd, 450 animals. But instead, that morning the poachers were hiding among trees surrounding the rangers camp. It was reassuring to find the Tanzanian law enforcers so vigilant, because the country is plagued by perhaps the worst elephant poaching in Africa, and corruption is rife. South Sudan. Bryan Christy sets out on his groundbreaking mission to track down the kingpins of the ivory trade. 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. Kony even invited foreign press into his camp for interviews. On January 2, 2009, the horror bled into Garambas headquarters, at Nagero, where Kony soldiers burned the park rangers main building, destroyed equipment, and killed at least eight rangers and staff members. Read about our approach to external linking. Can fake tusks with hidden GPS trackers thwartthem? 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. ", 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. 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. Otti was furious, Onen says. " Turkalo and the other women stopped their boat, afraid they'd be fired on if they kept going. Researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. Ivory shops in Khartoum advertise in English and Chinese as well as Arabic. Zakoumas Mamba Team 1 antipoaching unit includes driver Issa Adoum (brown shirt). Or possibly even shown up in illegal ivorys biggest consuming country:China. Six years later, on October 25, 2014, Onen tells me, his poaching mission to Garamba was scheduled to deliver its ivory to Kony in Sudan. He points a finger at me, and yells, You are a liar, bwana! (Bwana is Swahili for sir.). CORNISH: Consequences that are still continuing nearly 30 years after the war. I know that ivory tusks make millions of pounds but is it really worth it? They all report to him, they all obey him. These jumbo foragers are masterful engineers of their surroundings. The biggest is why a dominant gene associated with deadly effects for males would persist in the population during periods without poaching. Suddenly they move steadily north, about 12 miles a day along the border with South Sudan, avoiding all roads. The park has lost all its rhinos to poaching for their horns. But she knew she had to leave; she's a researcher for a non-governmental wildlife organization, not some kind of soldier-of-fortune. Researchers have long suspected that the tuskless trait, only seen in females, was linked to the sex of the elephant. Onen is short and looks even smaller wearing a camouflage-patterned Ugandan army uniform thats too long for him in the sleeves. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Most of these children are very, very traumatized when they come back home. They have nightmares, Sugule continues. Later, when Labuschagne examined the trajectory of bullets at the scene, he concluded that the poachers had been trained in how to set up a cross fire, which, combined with evidence found at the scene, pointed to President Omar al-Bashirs Sudan Armed Forces. Geli Oh, 16, spent longer with Konys army than her two friendstwo and a half terrible years. Poaching has been curbed in Chads Zakouma National Park, but rebuilding the parks herd, now at 450, will take years. The air strike, dubbed Operation Lightning Thunder, included support from the DRC, southern Sudan, and the U.S. Inside the fake tusk, I want him to embed a custom-made GPS and satellite-based tracking system. For example, tuskless motherswho would have had one copy of the dominant tuskless gene, from their own mothershad the same number of daughters with and without tusks. "They recognize each other's voices," she told us in 2002, "just like women recognize their babies' cries. The result was. At the same time, the apartheid government and the Smith regime lost Portugal as an ally and with it the tens of thousands of soldiers that had been deployed in the Portuguese colonial wars. ", Turkalo says she walked up to the man in charge and saw he had an AK-47 assault rifle. I just can't understand why anyone would want to take away any of the amazing qualities and features of an elephant. The dogs are Belgian Malinois shepherds, famed for their use in military operations, especially in tough conditions like the dense central African bush. The men of the Hippotrague unit assumed that after the previous teams raid, the poachers had all fled home. Between April 25 and June 17, poachers killed two Garamba rangers and two army officers assisting with patrols. 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. Eventually, more than four tons was found, Africas largest seizure since the global ivory trade ban took effect in 1990. So why elephants? A welcome sight returns to Zakouma: babies. Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project, Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project. In Songo the tusks are held for three days in what looks like a clearing outside town. After three weeks the tusks turn north again, back into Sudan. Seleka and its rival, anti-Balaka, have set fire to people, thrown them off bridges, and murdered people wantonly, turning CAR into a lawless statethe kind of place where Konys group and other terrorist organizations thrive. He said: "We actually expect that this syndrome will decrease in frequency in our study population, provided that the conservation picture continues to stay as positive as it has been recently. The soldiers killed the elephants. During the Mozambican civil war, both sides financed their efforts by poaching elephants for ivory. Today, poaching has stopped in Gorongosa, and the elephant population is recovering. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Theyre in a place 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the ambient temperature, so perhaps theyve been buried in the backyard. In this scene from the documentary Explorer: Warlords of Ivory, a screener at Tanzanias airport accuses Bryan Christy of smuggling. Ive flown from Garamba park headquarters to a dirt airstrip deep inside the park to join an antipoaching patrol. We are in charge of the futures of our animals and earth and making a world for future generations to thrive in. 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 also said that Kony intends to form a squad to establish contact with Boko Haram, the Nigerian terrorist group responsible for widespread killings and the kidnappings of hundreds of Nigerian women and schoolgirls. "I could hear the call and say, 'Yeah, that's a juvenile being pushed out of a hole by its mother; it's protesting.' But Onen got his way. If true, Soumaine Issa will find poachers working with Seleka. Instead of signing a peace agreement, Kony had his peace negotiator executed. But Turkalo decided not to leave the region right away. In ten years hes never made a mistake, he says: The tusks are real. Beginning on Christmas Eve, his soldiers spread out in small teams and murdered civilians. Congos own soldiers threaten the parks southern border, and villagers around the park sometimes poach elephants too. "As a result there were large numbers of soldiers in the area and a lot of associated. One possibility is that surges of intense hunting have occurred on and off in Gorongosa over millennia, letting the genes occasionally provide a benefit. EVERY SINGLE animal on this planet is special and this doesn't happen to monkeys or crocodiles or birds does it? Its only the ivory that will make the LRA strong, he recalls Konysaying. Now it was rare to see 250 in aherd. It hadnt explodedyet. b. percentage of elephants killed . Sugule is the founder of a group that provides assistance to victims of Konys army. 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. When in 2008 the Wildlife Conservation Society introduced a surveillance airplane, poaching declined, but Sudanese marauders adapted, returning in hit squads of under six men, who infiltrated from outside the park on one-day hunts. Track the GPS unit in an interactive map. Konys response was immediate and savage. As long-ranging animals, they shape vast swaths of wildlands, stomping and chomping through them, sparring with trees, rearranging foliage. His wife, abducted later, was killed. 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. But in central Africa, as I learned firsthand, something more sinister is driving the killing: Militias and terrorist groups funded in part by ivory are poaching elephants, often outside their home countries, and even hiding inside national parks. She and other scientists also recorded their calls. Subscribe to News from Science for full access to breaking news and analysis on research and science policy. This project was made possible by a grant from The WoodtigerFund. Arent you interested in peace talks?. There, Onen says, Konys men trade ivory with the Sudanese military for salt, sugar, and arms. After six hours on the dark river, they got to safety, to a campsite in the Congo. PHOTO EDITOR: Kathy Moran. Their own families are afraid that theyre devils, or forever soldiers, who might kill them in the night. Professor Pringle said it was possible to reverse this trait over time as long as work to recover elephant populations from the brink of extinction continues. 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. Although the adaptation comes with a pricean associated genetic mutation kills male elephants before theyre bornthe emerging trait may have helped save the population. The park has four mounted ranger teams because horses are the only way to effectively patrol during the wet season, when the elephants head to drier land outside the park. Accuracy and availability may vary. That's painful to imagine, especially for anyone who's had the chance to watch these animals. The relatives of murdered Zakouma ranger Idriss Adoum tracked one of the alleged Heban hill poachers to Sudan and arranged to have him brought back to Chad to stand trial. All rights reserved. Outnumbered and ill equipped, theyre manning the front line in a violent battle that affects us all. Our airport incident was one of many hiccups with the artificial tusks. Researchers took blood samples from elephants in order to sequence their genomes. The three of us eat together (the police chief, a Muslim, leaves the beer to us). By Jake Buehler. During the summer Konys soldiers had killed 25 elephants in Garamba, and they were on their way back to Kony carrying the ivory. Konys army had arrived in Garamba in 2006 with little ammunition left to continue its war, Onen tells me. During the rains the park is more lake than land, and elephants split into two groups to escape the floods. 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. Now its under siege for its ivory, mainly by rogue soldiers from national armies and by the terrorist group the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). These LRA defectorsall abducted as children and pressed into servicenow fight for the Ugandan military. 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. Rangers practice their riding skills at Zakouma National Park, in Chad. ", They were the Seleka the Muslim rebels who had overthrown the national government in the spring of 2013. Such a biased sex ratio would be expected with a recessive gene that kills males when they inherit it. While Dante set about embedding Kermeens tracker inside his tusk mold, a third team member, John Flaig, a specialist in near-space, balloon-based photographyimages taken from at least the height of spy planeswas preparing to monitor the tusks as they moved. I know which house theyre in: Using Google Earth, I see its light-blue roof on my screen. When he returns hours later, he has three chicken dinners and several bottles of beer, paid for by the police chief. Embattled park rangers are often the only defense for wildlife andvillagers. Otti liked elephants, Onen recalled, and forbade their killing. We ask if she recognized any of the elephants in the photos taken of their carcasses after the poachers fled. Boko Haram also uses the bush as a baseNigerias Sambisa Forest, a game reserve south of Lake Chad. PELLETIER: The reason why that's important is because if you stop the killing right now, you know, the time it would take for the population to, you know, restore that traits would be much longer now that there's been a change in the genes than if it wasn't. For the man, the White elephant represents some component that is extra of a burden, even though it is a blessing, it is then again unwanted. AUDIO: Justin O'Neill. I arrive at what amounts to the park rangers northern front, an outpost vulnerable both to Sudanese poachers and Konys army. But it could take a long time for tusked females to become as common as they once were. Its easier to live with things, she says. A sixth, a young lookout, ran down the hill, disappeared, and is presumed dead. Why are you collecting ivory? Otti demanded of Kony. As she sips her tea in the Providence coffee shop, Turkalo is the picture of calm. In March 2006 he fled for the DRC and set up camp in Garamba National Park, then home to some 4,000 elephants. Albert Roca, a geneticist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, calls the shift striking in its speedand because it is driven by people. These soldiers are tasked with helping rangers fight poachers and armed groups like theLRA. Those looking at the x-ray screen, which shows the trackers inside, think Im smuggling a bomb. In three weeks Konys brutes killed more than 800 people and kidnapped more than 160 children. As we talk over my design needs, Dantes brown eyes sparkle like a boys on Christmas morning. It needs to be durable and small enough to fit inside the cavities George Dante would make in the blocks of resin and lead that formed the tusks. "Not only do they recognize each other's calls, but the calls go far," she told NPR correspondent Alex Chadwick, who spent days with her back then, observing the elephants with Bill McQuay. Sudan is not on these lists, even though Sudanese poachers are a primary reason elephants are killed in several of the countries listed by CITES as of primary or secondary concern. 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. I wonder if Konys men are out there now. Froment uses the word war to describe the fight Garambas 150 rangers are in with poachers. He designed a GPS tracker that the U.S. Geological Survey embedded in live Burmese pythons to monitor the invasive snakes in the Florida Everglades. In May 2013 Seleka-backed Sudanese poachers attacked Dzanga Bai, an elephant oasis in Dzanga-Ndoki National Park of southwest CAR, killing 26 elephants. Tongo Tongo shot two elephants one day, she says. National Geographic television producer J.J.Kelley takes the floor in the waiting area. They included South Sudanese armed forces (SPLA) and Sudanese military, as well as defectors from those militaries and an assortment of Sudan-based rebels. When the tortoise Lonesome George, emblem of the Galpagos Islands, died, it was Dante who was tasked with restoring him. Because there were no tuskless males, the researchers suspected the trait might be caused by genes on the x chromosome, including a dominant one for tusklessness and a recessive one lethal only to males. Gathering speed, they continue north before abruptly turning east, in the direction of Khartoum. The family of Idriss Adoum (second from left) tracked one suspect to Sudan. ". 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. He wasnt contrite. They killed fewer elephants per hunt but were much harder to track and stop. A booming Chinese middle class with an insatiable taste for ivory, crippling poverty in Africa, weak and corrupt law enforcement, and more ways than ever to kill an elephant have created a perfect storm. MCCAMMON: Campbell-Staton and his team worked with local researchers who had tracked elephants for decades. Soldiers Kill Wild Elephant. 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