Schreger lines, he says. 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. - 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. Turkalo clearly would rather be back in Africa than in a coffee house in Rhode Island. 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. Like much of the world, George Dante knows that the African elephant is under siege. Then they head south six miles, back into Kafia Kingi. Turkalo is compact and direct, and wears her dark hair pulled back in a bun. 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. "They recognize each other's voices," she told us in 2002, "just like women recognize their babies' cries. Researchers are still trying to pinpoint all the genetics that underpin . By the time you read this, my tusks might have gone to Khartoum. I order a satellite shot of their location from DigitalGlobe, a commercial vendor of space imagery, and ask for outside help interpreting it. All creatures should live in harmony! It is believed they do this either to cool themselves off or as a reaction to the annoyance of parasites of the skin. But Dante, who is one of the worlds most respected taxidermists, has never done what Im asking him to do. In the United States, Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama supported efforts either to arrest or kill him. 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. Soldiers killed elephants for their ivory tusks, which were extremely valuable. 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. Sugule is the founder of a group that provides assistance to victims of Konys army. They have flashbacks. Im a problem solver., I laugh. "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. In January 2014, while x-raying a Vietnam-bound container declared to hold cashews, Togolese port authorities saw something strange: ivory. 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. 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. 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. DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT: Kevin DiCesare, Joel Fiser, Jaime Hritsik, Brian Jacobs. Do we really need to sell ivory tusks in the world just to make money? Fifty percent will be tuskless. Since the 2008-09 attack by Konys soldiers, rangers have finished building a new headquarters and acquired two airplanes and a helicopter. 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. That evening, they floated by a village. Five of the six men in Zakoumas Hippotrague patrol unit were killed by elephant poachers outside the park; the sixth is presumed dead. 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. They all report to him, they all obey him. This is the long shadow of that human imprint that is going to take generations to erase, Pringle says. Garamba is a crucible within a crucible, a park under siege in a country often in civil war in a region that has nearly forgotten peace. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. They found that the tuskless trait was genetic, found in the X chromosome, and it was deadly in males. Their path is consistent with the route Konys defectors tell me ivory takes on the way to the warlords Kafia Kingi base. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In May 2013 Seleka-backed Sudanese poachers attacked Dzanga Bai, an elephant oasis in Dzanga-Ndoki National Park of southwest CAR, killing 26 elephants. 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. Learn more about the Explorer series. The cook, Djimet Said (below), was shot but survived, walking 11 miles to the nearest village for help. The family of Idriss Adoum (top, second from left) tracked one suspect to Sudan. Turkalo is back in the U.S. now, living near Providence, R.I. She had to flee Africa last year because of the civil war in the country that is home to the elephants she shared a life with. The men of the Hippotrague unit assumed that after the previous teams raid, the poachers had all fled home. Can fake tusks with hidden GPS trackers thwartthem? 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. Zakoumas Mamba Team 1 antipoaching unit includes driver Issa Adoum (brown shirt). She and other scientists also recorded their calls. Ugandan forces killed Binany in 2013 and recovered thediary. 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. ", "We got into a boat; we went downriver," Turkalo says. Follow theirroute. During the rains the park is more lake than land, and elephants split into two groups to escape the floods. The poachers opened fire, killing five rangers. Diya is for accidents, he says. Now it was rare to see 250 in aherd. Before the civil war, about 18.5% of females were naturally tuskless, but that figure has risen to 33% among elephants born since the early 1990s. In the criminal world, ivory operates as currency, so in a way Im asking Dante to print counterfeit money I canfollow. In Songo the tusks are held for three days in what looks like a clearing outside town. All around me I hear the click-clack of automatic weapons being loaded. November 6, 1954, Page 3 Buy Reprints. The series was one of NPR's earliest adopters of digital technology and led the network in surround-sound production. CORNISH: That's Fanie Pelletier, a wildlife biologist in Canada who wasn't involved in the work. In this scene from the documentary Explorer: Warlords of Ivory, a screener at Tanzanias airport accuses Bryan Christy of smuggling. Professor Robert Pringle of Princeton University said: "Tusklessness might be advantageous during a war, but that comes at a cost.". According to Cline Sissler-Bienvenu, Francophone Africa director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, who led a group into the park after the slaughter, the poachers were most likely from Darfurs Rizeigat tribal group, with ties to the janjaweedthe violent, Sudanese-government-backed militias that have committed atrocities in Darfur. I find a human skull fragment, and I nearly pick up a live hand grenade near where the SPLA had camped, mistaking it for a baby tortoise. Turkalo's pretty famous in the world of elephant research, as one of the first to study forest elephants. "This time they covered most of country," she says, "pillage, rape and kill. He sits on a plastic chair opposite me in a clearing at the African Union forces base in Obo, in the southeastern corner of CAR, where he is in custody. We need your help to protect elephants and report on wildlife crime. Mostup to 3,000were poached from 2005 to 2008. Elephant ivory is a key source of funding for armed groups in central Africa . At that time, about 18% of females there were born without tusks. The dogs are Belgian Malinois shepherds, famed for their use in military operations, especially in tough conditions like the dense central African bush. 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. South Sudan. This find suggests the mutation for tusklessness may kill male elephants, per the New York Times. Gathering speed, they continue north before abruptly turning east, in the direction of Khartoum. 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. During the Mozambican civil war, both sides financed their efforts by poaching elephants for ivory. 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I unzip my suitcase to expose two fake tusks and hand him letters from the U.S. 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. Track the GPS unit in an interactive map. 75/129 = 58.1%. (Special thanks to the National Public Radio - National Geographic Society Radio Expeditions Sound Collection at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, for sharing the audio.). 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. No one has. But instead, that morning the poachers were hiding among trees surrounding the rangers camp. Science and AAAS are working tirelessly to provide credible, evidence-based information on the latest scientific research and policy, with extensive free coverage of the pandemic. 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. It also raises many questions. They used Historical records to collect height (estimated to the shoulder), tusk length, and tusk circumference from approximately 600 elephants that were culled in Tsavo East National Park (Kenya) and Mkomazi National Park (Tanzania) between 1966 and 1968. Get more great content like this delivered right to you! Maybe I could get my fake tusks to Konytoo. During the summer Konys soldiers had killed 25 elephants in Garamba, and they were on their way back to Kony carrying the ivory. Kony even invited foreign press into his camp for interviews. Katy Payne/The Elephant Listening Project The New York Times Archives. 4. 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. Weve heard he went to Seleka, Idriss Adoums son Issa tells me, referring to the violent rebel coalition that overthrew the CAR government on March 24, 2013. Soumaine Abdoulaye Issa had been in Darfur, he told a team of African Parks investigators, when he heard about an elephant poaching mission to Chad led by a member of the Sudan Armed Forces. Earlier this year Kony suffered the defection of his commander of operations, Dominic Ongwen, who told African Union forces that Konys desire for ivory was reinforced by Seleka. Turkalo is now part of an extraordinary operation to protect the surviving forest elephants. MCCAMMON: Those changes can ripple through ecosystems. ", 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. Its only the ivory that will make the LRA strong, he recalls Konysaying. I know that ivory tusks make millions of pounds but is it really worth it? Despite their lack of tusks, it's often the females who can be seen defending the herd. After Lucienne Lanziwas husband died in an LRA attack on Garamba, she got a modest stipend. In 2013, Khamis Kagasheki, then Tanzanias minister of natural resources and tourism, declared that the illegal ivory trade involves rich people and politicians who have formed a very sophisticated network, and he accused four members of Tanzanias Parliament of being involved init. Tusklessness became more common in the female elephants of Mozambique 's Gorongosa National Park after rampant ivory poaching during the country's 15-year civil war. Forest elephants linger on a misty morning at the Dzanga bai. As of this writing, my artificial tusks sent out their last communication from a Sudanese town called Ed Daein, 500 miles southwest of Khartoum. It sort of found me. Once the war and poaching ended,elephants with tusks were more likely to survive because they could use their tusks to find . In this scene from the documentary Explorer: Warlords of Ivory, Bryan Christy presents world-renowned taxidermist George Dante with a new challenge: creating a completely convincing fake elephant tusk. Otti liked elephants, Onen recalled, and forbade their killing. A small proportion of females . And I was like, ooh, what's this? Konys army had arrived in Garamba in 2006 with little ammunition left to continue its war, Onen tells me. For his Judas pig project he built GPS satellite collars to enable pest control authorities in New Zealand to send feral pigs into the bush and locate their invasive piggy friends. The last time an elephant was recorded killed by a poacher in Mozambique's Niassa Reserve was May 17, 2018, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, a New York -based nonprofit that helps the Mozambican government manage the national reserve. 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. So did the African Union military forces, whose CAR-based men in Obo are tasked with finding Kony. Theyre in a place 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the ambient temperature, so perhaps theyve been buried in the backyard. 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. By 1913, the African elephant population had dropped to an estimated 10 million. A white elephant is a valuable item that has a rate that perhaps surpasses its usefulness. 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. In 1994 Kony left Uganda and took his murderous gang on the road. Today, poaching has stopped in Gorongosa, and the elephant population is recovering. 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. Froment uses the word war to describe the fight Garambas 150 rangers are in with poachers. Widows now get a sum equal to six years of a rangers salary. Instead of being made a soldier, he was designated a signalera radioman privy to Konys secret communications. Where did the tusks end up? Thousands of elephants die each year so that their tusks can be carved into religious objects. 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. He was 22 years old the night in 1998 that Konys soldiers raided his village in Gulu, Uganda, and pulled him from his bed. A pilot study published this year showed that the presence of a beehive fence reduced the odds of an elephant crossing the river by 95%. One possibility is that surges of intense hunting have occurred on and off in Gorongosa over millennia, letting the genes occasionally provide a benefit. 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. But last year at the bai, she says, she feared for her life. Outnumbered and ill equipped, theyre manning the front line in a violent battle that affects us all. National Geographic commissioned the creation of artificial tusks with hidden GPS trackers that were planted in the smuggling supplychain. Radio Expeditions used interviews, narration, and on-location recording to bring listeners to exotic places around the world. I spend a night in police custody, where Im given a desk to sleep on. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. The poaching issue is a governance issue, Froment says. There, Onen says, Konys men trade ivory with the Sudanese military for salt, sugar, and arms. CORNISH: Campbell-Staton had heard all of this before. During the same period, neighboring Mozambique is reported to have lost 48 percent of its elephants. The relationship is close: SAF warns Kony if theres trouble, Onen says. Garamba is managed through a partnership between the DRCs wildlife department and African Parks, a group based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Seleka rebels had a stock of about 300 ivory tusks that they sold, which enabled them to get the supplies that helped them overthrow President Franois Boziz in CAR, Ongwen told African Union forces, according to his debriefing. The three of us eat together (the police chief, a Muslim, leaves the beer to us). 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. Such genes ought to disappear, Roca says, because females that lack them would have more offspring. It's run by a band of men who, if not exactly soldiers-of-fortune, certainly are trained warriors. Suddenly they move steadily north, about 12 miles a day along the border with South Sudan, avoiding all roads. The study is extremely thorough and ticks off all the boxes, Roca says. So if a tuskless mom had babies CAMPBELL-STATON: She has a 50% chance of passing the trait on to her offspring. Its not a secret to anyone that Konys in Sudan, says the State Departments Marty Regan. In March 2006 he fled for the DRC and set up camp in Garamba National Park, then home to some 4,000 elephants. Ivory operates as a savings account for Kony, says Marty Regan, of the U.S. State Departments Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. Now, says the parks director, Rian Labuschagne, of African Parks, my biggest fear is that theyll start coming in pairs.. Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project, Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project. National Geographic needs your help to protect elephants and to continue reporting on wildlife crime. 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. In Zimbabwe, a recent survey shows massive losses in some parks. 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. The teams cook, also wounded, struggled 11 miles to get help. From the moment of his capture, Onen says, he was a complainer. 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. 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. When the tortoise Lonesome George, emblem of the Galpagos Islands, died, it was Dante who was tasked with restoring him. 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. PRODUCER: Janey Adams. Its hissanctuary.. Elephants gather in the Dzanga bai, a forest clearing the size of several football fields. A few days later the tusks proceed to Songo, the Sudanese market town where Onen said Konys men trade ivory. As far as Onen knew, the poaching squad he abandoned was still making its way north from Garamba through CAR to Sudan. Accuracy and availability may vary. Help News from Science publish trustworthy, high-impact stories about research and the people who shape it. Rangers practice their riding skills at Zakouma National Park, in Chad. Ive flown from Garamba park headquarters to a dirt airstrip deep inside the park to join an antipoaching patrol. The air strike, dubbed Operation Lightning Thunder, included support from the DRC, southern Sudan, and the U.S. 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. In Tanzania and Mozambique, elephants . Bryan Christy sets out on his groundbreaking mission to track down the kingpins of the ivory trade. 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.. As we talk over my design needs, Dantes brown eyes sparkle like a boys on Christmas morning. CORNISH: Consequences that are still continuing nearly 30 years after the war. In . CORNISH: You see; while most African elephants have tusks, some female African elephants are born without them and never grow them. " Turkalo and the other women stopped their boat, afraid they'd be fired on if they kept going. "So we heard this 'rat-a-tat-tat.' His army farmed vegetables. A forum for discussion about elephants and rhinos and a rally point for those who want to getinvolved. 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. On the 15th day after they began to move, they cross into South Sudan and from there make their way into the Kafia Kingi enclave, a disputed territory in Darfur controlled bySudan. He asks for water for me and is led out of the building. I agree elephants are my favourite animals and it's unfair elephants don't cut of our noses or massively nearly ruin our species so why should we do the same to them. Dry season in, rainy season out. "They were terrified. One moves north toward Heban, the other west toward centralChad. To gain more troops it recruited civilians into its armyincluding child soldersafter mass abductions. 4. You did exactly what you were supposed to do, I said, shaking their hands. Meanwhile, according to Onen, Konys men hid ivory by burying it in the ground or submerging it in rivers. RESEARCH: Heidi Schultz, Brad Scriber. I just can't understand why anyone would want to take away any of the amazing qualities and features of an elephant. 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. COPY EDITOR: Cindy Leitner, Hear Brent Stirton tell their stories in an audioslideshow, Hear Bryan Christy discuss the investigation on. 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. In 2012 as many as a hundred Sudanese and Chadian poachers on horseback rode across central Africa into Cameroons Bouba Ndjidah National Park. To use comments you will need to have JavaScript enabled. 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. Villagers sometimes taunt returned children with the same expression used for Konys men: LRA Tongo Tongo. LRA Cut Cuta reference, Sugule explains, to the militants vicious use ofmachetes. Sudan. Our airport incident was one of many hiccups with the artificial tusks. It was thanks largely to efforts by the group Invisible Children and its video Kony 2012 that Kony became a household name in the West. The Central African Republic (CAR). 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. "I don't know which ones they killed," she replies. Then youre just the man for me.. This limited the trade of some ivory, but trade still continued across the world. The Central African Republic was peaceful back then. 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. This pushed the species to the brink of extinction. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a treaty organization that governs international trade in ivoryand its continuing banhas identified eight countries of primary concern when it comes to international ivory trafficking: China, Kenya, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Uganda, Tanzania, and Vietnam. 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. After months of tinkering, Kermeens final bespoke ivory-tracking device arrives in the mail. Andrea says all she was able to rescue were electronic copies of her research data. We protect the elephant to protect the park. To me, it seems reasonable to think that the radiomans defection might have slowed the progress of the 25 elephants tusks headed to Kony. Traits that are beneficial in one environment may not be beneficial in another. Onen is short and looks even smaller wearing a camouflage-patterned Ugandan army uniform thats too long for him in the sleeves. We'll tell you more about them Friday, on NPR's Morning Edition. Arent you interested in peace talks?. for their tusks. Members of the Ugandan armys dog-tracking team lift weights at the African Union base in Obo, CAR. I know which house theyre in: Using Google Earth, I see its light-blue roof on my screen. Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project. 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