As she sips her tea in the Providence coffee shop, Turkalo is the picture of calm. 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. No one has. That's just something to think about and consider really because it's absolutely RIDICULOUS that any animal should have to go through that. In this scene from the documentary Explorer: Warlords of Ivory, a screener at Tanzanias airport accuses Bryan Christy of smuggling. In June three more Garamba-based officers were killed. When he returns hours later, he has three chicken dinners and several bottles of beer, paid for by the police chief. 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. Quintin Kermeen, 51, based in Concord, California, has the credentials, and the personality, Im looking for. 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. 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. 5. Or will they go nowhere, discovered before theyre moved and turned in by an honest person? In a public square in Am Timan, shortly before his trial, he shouted, I know who betrayed me! To test ivory, dealers will scratch a tusk with a knife or hold a lighter under it; ivory is a tooth and wont melt. As in eye colour and blood type in humans, genes are responsible for whether elephants inherit tusks from their parents. 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. Having worked extensively throughout central Africa, Froment transferred to Garamba in early 2014 after rangers discovered dozens of elephant carcasses in the park. The relationship is close: SAF warns Kony if theres trouble, Onen says. Copyright 2021 NPR. They had nowhere to run." Female elephants do use their tusks, but female elephants in Mozambique are doing just fine without them, according to Long. It hadnt explodedyet. Researchers took blood samples from elephants in order to sequence their genomes. 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. But a computer simulation, which examined the probability of tusked and tuskless females surviving the war, suggested the increase in tuskless females was far more likely to have resulted from selection, the team reports online today in Science. A global march demanding action to stop elephant and rhino poaching will be held . They also had twice as many daughters as sons. I spend a night in police custody, where Im given a desk to sleep on. CORNISH: You see; while most African elephants have tusks, some female African elephants are born without them and never grow them. (Special thanks to the National Public Radio - National Geographic Society Radio Expeditions Sound Collection at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, for sharing the audio.). Its not clear why a mutated version of AMELXwhich is located on the x chromosomewould be fatal to males, but researchers suspect one or more nearby genes come along for the ride. The soldiers killed the elephants. "The people on the shore, they started discharging their automatic weapons in the air," she remembers. Instead of being made a soldier, he was designated a signalera radioman privy to Konys secret communications. Without the stress of poaching, the elephants started breeding again, and more than 40 calves have been born. Kony even invited foreign press into his camp for interviews. Today, poaching has stopped in Gorongosa, and the elephant population is recovering. After three weeks the tusks turn north again, back into Sudan. 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. According to CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon, Sudan does not appear on these lists because CITES sets priorities based mainly on ivory seizures, and there have been few ivory seizures linked to Sudan in recent years. RESEARCH: Heidi Schultz, Brad Scriber. It was still too dangerous, Turkalo decided, so she made her escape by boat a second time. And I gotta find a way to get that shine, Dante says, referring to the gloss a clean elephant tusk has. 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. See the article in its original context from. Like much of the world, George Dante knows that the African elephant is under siege. The women pushed on downriver. Elephants gather in the Dzanga bai, a forest clearing the size of several football fields. The New York Times Archives. Unlike Savanna elephants, forest elephants don't have natural predators, such as lions. In ten years hes never made a mistake, he says: The tusks are real. AAAS is a partner of HINARI, AGORA, OARE, CHORUS, CLOCKSS, CrossRef and COUNTER. But Onen got his way. Chad. Its easier to live with things, she says. I will escape from your jail, and I will kill him. He did escape, and a rumor in Zakouma is that he fled south to CAR. They were relieving a ranger team that had raided a Sudanese poachers camp three weeks before and seized more than a thousand rounds of ammunition; mobile phones holding photographs of bloated, dead elephants; a satellite phone with a solar panel charger; two elephant tusks; a pair of camouflage pants; and a uniform with the insignia of Abu TiraSudans notorious Central Reserve Police, alleged to have committed mass killings, assaults, and rapes in Darfur. I order a satellite shot of their location from DigitalGlobe, a commercial vendor of space imagery, and ask for outside help interpreting it. The results suggest that by killing elephants for their tusks, poachers selected for mutated versions of AMELX and MEP1a, which spread in the population and made tuskless elephants more common. b. percentage of elephants killed . 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. 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. He points a finger at me, and yells, You are a liar, bwana! (Bwana is Swahili for sir.). In Songo the tusks are held for three days in what looks like a clearing outside town. The team calculated that 18.5 percent of female elephants did not have tusks before the war began. "So we heard this 'rat-a-tat-tat.' The LRA sells to the Sudan Armed Forces, Onen said. Learn more about the Explorer series. The teams cook, also wounded, struggled 11 miles to get help. 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. 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. Garamba is managed through a partnership between the DRCs wildlife department and African Parks, a group based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ivory poachers are killing some 22,000 African elephants a year. Can fake tusks with hidden GPS trackers thwartthem? Radio Expeditions used interviews, narration, and on-location recording to bring listeners to exotic places around the world. At that time, about 18% of females there were born without tusks. 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 . only . Im not an animal lover, he snaps. A forum for discussion about elephants and rhinos and a rally point for those who want to getinvolved. Our next story begins in a place many of us are familiar with - up awake, watching a YouTube video at 3 in the morning. We protect the elephant to protect the park. And I was like, ooh, what's this? Those looking at the x-ray screen, which shows the trackers inside, think Im smuggling a bomb. . 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. "When it gets bad we leave.". A crowd gathers. But after Otti left Garamba to participate in the peace talks, Kony began killing elephants for ivory. Katy Payne/The Elephant Listening Project They shot 26 elephants and cut out their tusks. Other roads also lead to Sudan. Editor's Note: Viewers may find the next image from the 2013 elephant slaughter disturbing. Most of these children are very, very traumatized when they come back home. They have nightmares, Sugule continues. 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 story typically would have ended with the wanton killing of these park rangers protecting elephants. Konys army had arrived in Garamba in 2006 with little ammunition left to continue its war, Onen tells me. 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.. It sort of found me. By skewing their evolution, humans fiddle with elephants' role in the ecosystem too. " Turkalo and the other women stopped their boat, afraid they'd be fired on if they kept going. Kony was adamant in his radio transmissions. Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project, Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project. SHANE CAMPBELL-STATON: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute - they had this video that was called "The Tuskless Elephants Of Gorongosa." To identify the elephants, Turkalo learned to draw the animals' ears each ear's shape and markings are unique to each individual. Dzanga Baialso known as the village of elephantsis a mineral-rich mudhole where the animalscongregate. Then, like a bobber in a fishing hole, a nibble. Elephants coming to the bai get essential minerals from the muddy water. 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. It's nothing extraordinary for humans. Widows now get a sum equal to six years of a rangers salary. "During the war, Gorongosa was essentially the geographic center of the conflict," Long said via email. Which raises the question: If ivory is poached by Sudanese, where is it going? Several Tanzanian officers who had presided over my arrest at the airport, including the wildlife expert, returned the next day to wish us bon voyage. "But I'm certain I knew a few of the elephants they killed," she says including some that the NPR team had recorded. In May 2013 poachers with the insurgent group Seleka massacred 26 elephants at Dzanga Bai, amineral-rich watering hole in CAR. TEXT EDITOR: Oliver Payne. 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. These soldiers are tasked with helping rangers fight poachers and armed groups like theLRA. It was several weeks after that, that she heard that poachers taking advantage of the chaos in the country had invaded the bai. Read about our approach to external linking. The UN estimated that the massacre displaced more than a hundred thousand Congolese and Sudanese. She's bundled in a heavy coat rarely needed during her years in the African bush. The Central African Republic was peaceful back then. Back in 1969 Gorongosa National Park was home to over 2200 elephants, but now there is just over 700 in the park. Or possibly even shown up in illegal ivorys biggest consuming country:China. Subscribe to News from Science for full access to breaking news and analysis on research and science policy. During the summer Konys soldiers had killed 25 elephants in Garamba, and they were on their way back to Kony carrying the ivory. ", Turkalo says she walked up to the man in charge and saw he had an AK-47 assault rifle. As of this writing, my artificial tusks sent out their last communication from a Sudanese town called Ed Daein, 500 miles southwest of Khartoum. During the civil war in Mozambique,soldiers killed elephants with tusks in order to sell the ivory, so fewer elephants with tusks survived. The focus of the series was on nature, diverse cultures, and endangered environments.Its intent, according its creator Carolyn Jensen, who passed away in 2010, was to give listeners the sound equivalent of National Geographic photos. Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project. for their tusks. Five of the six men in Zakoumas Hippotrague patrol unit were killed by elephant poachers outside the park; the sixth is presumed dead. It was used to make combs, pool balls, knick-knacks, and even piano keys. Michael K. Nichols/National Geographic/Getty Images. When ivory poachers target elephants, the hunters can affect more than just animal numbers. Now it was rare to see 250 in aherd. Albert Roca, a geneticist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, calls the shift striking in its speedand because it is driven by people. 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. By Jake Buehler. 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. 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. All rights reserved. "They were terrified. Calculate the percentages of the illegally killed elephants between 2007 and 2013 represented by each group of elephants in Question 3. "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 Zakoumas rangers destroyed their camp and confiscated their equipment, the poachers were unable to return to Sudan, so three weeks later they went back to Heban hill and attacked the Hippotrague unit. 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. 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. Fifty percent will be tuskless. The series was one of NPR's earliest adopters of digital technology and led the network in surround-sound production. If he can do this, Ill ask him to make several more tusks. 19/129 = 14.7%. 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. Fifty percent of her sons will be tusked, but that other 50% would die. 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. Civil war drove these elephants to lose their tusksthrough evolution. I know which house theyre in: Using Google Earth, I see its light-blue roof on my screen. This pushed the species to the brink of extinction. 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. Andrea Turkalo looks through a scope in 2002 from the observation platform she built along the edge of the bai. Despite Sudans role as a safe haven for groups known to traffic ivory, such as the LRA, janjaweed, and other poaching gangs, the country has drawn limited official attention as a poaching state. Their own families are afraid that theyre devils, or forever soldiers, who might kill them in the night. From Garamba, Kony sent an exploratory team to Darfur to look into forging a new relationship with the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), who had supported him against Uganda, hoping to exchange ivory for rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons. At least 26 elephants were massacred at the Dzanga Bai in the Central African Republic in the spring of 2013. So far theyve traveled 600 miles from jungle to desert in just under two months. AUDIO: Justin O'Neill. This story was originally published in the September 2015 issue of National Geographicmagazine. We plunge eight hours through elephant grass so tall and thick its possible to get lost just 20 feet from the man in front of youdown grass ravines, up hills exposed to the enemy, across a murky, waist-deep pond. Congolese soldiers undergo training by Mathieu Eckel of African Parks, an NGO that manages Garamba National Park with the DRCs parks authority. You did exactly what you were supposed to do, I said, shaking their hands. Konys men jump back and forth across borders, hiding in countries where governance is weak. Onen had been part of an LRA poaching operation in Garamba consisting of 41 fighters, including Konys son Salim. I make a mental note that Konys soldiers and other armed groups walk hundreds of miles from Sudan into this endless grass curtain to kill elephants. Together we can make a difference. - during that 15-year period had all these cascading consequences, all the way up from, you know, a single gene to an entire ecosystem health. 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. Kermeen started in the radio-tracking business when he was 15 and has since built electronic trackers and collars for wildlife from Andean bears to California condors to Tasmanian devils. The poaching issue is a governance issue, Froment says. Tusk inheritance patterns in the ElephantVoices database backed up that assumption. c. percentage of elephants killed for . During the Mozambican Civil War from 1977 to 1992, humans killed so many elephants for their lucrative ivory that the animals seem to have evolved in the space of a generation. 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. 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. 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). But that's not the end of the story. Halfway through our patrol, we come upon a clearing of burned grass beside the Kassi River, the site of a recent battle between Garamba rangers and SPLA poachers, in which, rangers tell me, they killed two 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. Erik Stokstad is a reporter at Science, covering environmental issues. Our airport incident was one of many hiccups with the artificial tusks. Andrea Turkalo sketched the ears and other details of the elephants she studied to help identify them. Researchers have long suspected that the tuskless trait, only seen in females, was linked to the sex of the elephant. Its not a secret to anyone that Konys in Sudan, says the State Departments Marty Regan. PRODUCER: Janey Adams. On our patrol we dont encounter any poachers or rebel groups. By 1979, there were only 1.3 million elephants left. Im a problem solver., I laugh. I just can't understand why anyone would want to take away any of the amazing qualities and features of an elephant. My interpretation, says Jean Marc Froment, then director of the park, is that the Ugandan military is conducting operations inside Garamba and at the same time taking some ivory. But, he adds, the poachers could be SPLA, which uses the same type of helicopter seen over the park. From the moment of his capture, Onen says, he was a complainer. Traits that are beneficial in one environment may not be beneficial in another. 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. During the Mozambican civil war, both sides financed their efforts by poaching elephants for ivory. 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. Here a ranger unit is permanently deployed to protect one of the parks most important assets: a radio tower that was being built. 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Researchers in Mozambique found a . 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. Outnumbered and ill equipped, theyre manning the front line in a violent battle that affects us all. Maybe I could get my fake tusks to Konytoo. Now, says the parks director, Rian Labuschagne, of African Parks, my biggest fear is that theyll start coming in pairs.. But instead, that morning the poachers were hiding among trees surrounding the rangers camp. Dry season in, rainy season out. Click the arrow below to hear the amazing audio tale they brought home. Soldiers killed elephants for their ivory tusks, which were extremely valuable. Ugandan forces killed Binany in 2013 and recovered thediary. 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. Researchers are still trying to pinpoint all the genetics that underpin . "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. So support charities who put a stop to that. The Ugandan military finally attacked Konys Garamba camps in late 2008. "We gave them a little money and said the Seleka were coming," says Turkalo. During the failed peace talks with Uganda, while Kony hid in Garamba from 2006 to 2008, Onen had been assigned to Konys lead peace negotiator, Vincent Otti. 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. A welcome sight returns to Zakouma: babies. Year after year, the path to many of the biggest, most horrific elephant killings traces back to Sudan, which has no elephants left but gives comfort to foreign-born poacher-terrorists and is home to the janjaweed and other Sudanese cross-continental marauders. Their path is consistent with the route Konys defectors tell me ivory takes on the way to the warlords Kafia Kingi base. Three more are classified as of importance to watch: Angola, Cambodia, and Laos. During the civil war in Mozambique, soldiers killed elephants with tusks in order to sell the ivory, so fewer elephants with tusks survived. 3. 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. 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. They all report to him, they all obey him. Zakoumas Mamba Team 1 antipoaching unit includes driver Issa Adoum (brown shirt). EVERY SINGLE animal on this planet is special and this doesn't happen to monkeys or crocodiles or birds does it? It is believed they do this either to cool themselves off or as a reaction to the annoyance of parasites of the skin. The result was. 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