It was still too dangerous, Turkalo decided, so she made her escape by boat a second time. 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 white elephant is a valuable item that has a rate that perhaps surpasses its usefulness. Elephants without tusks were normally. The cook, Djimet Said (below), was shot but survived, walking 11 miles to the nearest village for help. Do not lose even one tusk, he instructed the group, according to Onen, who said the plan was to carry the ivory to a rendezvous in CAR and then on to a market town in Darfur called Songo, not far from the Sudan Armed Forces garrison in Dafaq. Copyright 2021 NPR. 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. To gain more troops it recruited civilians into its armyincluding child soldersafter mass abductions. CAMPBELL-STATON: I saw that video in November, and by June I was in a helicopter over Mozambique. She had gone to Africa to do aid work, but was drawn to the intricate lives of these elephants. 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. Congos own soldiers threaten the parks southern border, and villagers around the park sometimes poach elephants too. After visiting Garamba, I arrange with a confidential source to put my tusks into the black market near Mboki, a small village in CAR midway between Garamba and Sudan that has been the target of attacks by Konys army and where some people who have escaped from Kony have found safety. 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%. 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. 'Everybody out, everybody out.' I know which house theyre in: Using Google Earth, I see its light-blue roof on my screen. The family of Idriss Adoum (top, second from left) tracked one suspect to Sudan. 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. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 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. CAMPBELL-STATON: You know, people during the Mozambican Civil War were not thinking about the evolution of elephants, I imagine, in the slightest. It also raises many questions. hide caption, "We didn't know anything about (the forest elephants) in terms of their social structure, numbers, genetics, communication," Turkalo explained back in 2002 when the NPR team visited. She's bundled in a heavy coat rarely needed during her years in the African bush. My tusks will have to act like ivory. "And there was moonlight and I could see he had a revolver and he might have been drinking. Issa claimed he was merely a lookout, not a poacher. In May 2013 poachers with the insurgent group Seleka massacred 26 elephants at Dzanga Bai, amineral-rich watering hole in CAR. The result was. 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. The women motored downriver toward the Democratic Republic of Congo. As of this writing, my artificial tusks sent out their last communication from a Sudanese town called Ed Daein, 500 miles southwest of Khartoum. The rangers on Heban hill had little reason to be concerned for their safety. It is assumed that the girls were raped, so its difficult for them to find husbands. "But I'm certain I knew a few of the elephants they killed," she says including some that the NPR team had recorded. Those elephants were featured in an NPR program, Radio Expeditions, in 2002, when former NPR host and correspondent Alex Chadwick and sound engineer Bill McQuay went to central Africa to record them. 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. They say the more elephants they kill, the more ivory they get.. Nov. 6, 1954. Having worked extensively throughout central Africa, Froment transferred to Garamba in early 2014 after rangers discovered dozens of elephant carcasses in the park. Then youre just the man for me.. I arrive at what amounts to the park rangers northern front, an outpost vulnerable both to Sudanese poachers and Konys army. I wonder if Konys men are out there now. 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. 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. To me, it seems reasonable to think that the radiomans defection might have slowed the progress of the 25 elephants tusks headed to Kony. The study is extremely thorough and ticks off all the boxes, Roca says. "We were all women five women." They have flashbacks. When he returns hours later, he has three chicken dinners and several bottles of beer, paid for by the police chief. This is the long shadow of that human imprint that is going to take generations to erase, Pringle says. "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. That's just something to think about and consider really because it's absolutely RIDICULOUS that any animal should have to go through that. Ive flown from Garamba park headquarters to a dirt airstrip deep inside the park to join an antipoaching patrol. One moves north toward Heban, the other west toward centralChad. You did exactly what you were supposed to do, I said, shaking their hands. 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. EVERY SINGLE animal on this planet is special and this doesn't happen to monkeys or crocodiles or birds does it? The relationship is close: SAF warns Kony if theres trouble, Onen says. But one of the murdered men, Idriss Adoum, had a younger brother, Saleh, who resolved that, when the rains stopped, he and a cousin would hunt the killers in Sudan, where so many ivory roads lead. 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. Congolese soldiers undergo training by Mathieu Eckel of African Parks, an NGO that manages Garamba National Park with the DRCs parks authority. Gathering speed, they continue north before abruptly turning east, in the direction of Khartoum. Researchers took blood samples from elephants in order to sequence their genomes. Like much of the world, George Dante knows that the African elephant is under siege. 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. Subscribe to News from Science for full access to breaking news and analysis on research and science policy. 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. 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. And I was like, ooh, what's this? MCCAMMON: Around 90% of the elephants there were killed, but many female elephants without tusks survived and thrived. 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. There were armed combatants roaming the countryside. During the Mozambican civil war, both sides financed their efforts by poaching elephants for ivory. Kafia Kingi is so widely recognized as a Kony hideout that in April 2013 a coalition of groups, including Invisible Children, the Enough Project, and the Resolve, issued a report called Hidden in Plain Sight: Sudans Harboring of the LRA in the Kafia Kingi Enclave, 2009-2013. LRA defectors I spoke with consistently placed the warlord in the Kafia Kingi area too. Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project, Andrea Turkalo /The Elephant Listening Project. After months of tinkering, Kermeens final bespoke ivory-tracking device arrives in the mail. A welcome sight returns to Zakouma: babies. These LRA defectorsall abducted as children and pressed into servicenow fight for the Ugandan military. Female elephants do use their tusks, but female elephants in Mozambique are doing just fine without them, according to Long. So far theyve traveled 600 miles from jungle to desert in just under two months. These soldiers are tasked with helping rangers fight poachers and armed groups like theLRA. We meet over Skype. The series was one of NPR's earliest adopters of digital technology and led the network in surround-sound production. 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. Its not a secret to anyone that Konys in Sudan, says the State Departments Marty Regan. In Zimbabwe, a recent survey shows massive losses in some parks. 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. After six hours on the dark river, they got to safety, to a campsite in the Congo. Park rangers are often the only forces going up against the killers. He said they bury sealed buckets of water along parched travel routes and bury ivory for safekeeping as well. Mostup to 3,000were poached from 2005 to 2008. DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT: Kevin DiCesare, Joel Fiser, Jaime Hritsik, Brian Jacobs. Accuracy and availability may vary. Instead of signing a peace agreement, Kony had his peace negotiator executed. They set up camp and in a four-month rampage killed up to 650 elephants. It was supposed to be a short posting, but he saw too much death to leave. The Central African Republic was peaceful back then. Then, like a bobber in a fishing hole, a nibble. The air strike, dubbed Operation Lightning Thunder, included support from the DRC, southern Sudan, and the U.S. "And they were yelling at us," she says. " DNA suggests that some of the ivory is from elephants killed in May 2013 at Dzanga Bai in CAR. Six antipoaching rangers and their cook, the entirety of the Hippotrague (French for roan antelope) unit, were awake, dressed in camouflage uniforms, and preparing for morning prayersdevoted even in the darkness. The Rhodesian armed forces lacked the manpower to effectively protect its 1,300-kilometre (800 mi) border with Mozambique against entering ZANLA insurgents. See the article in its original context from. 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. Now, scientists say that drove some elephants to evolve tusklessness. When ivory poachers target elephants, the hunters can affect more than just animal numbers. In this scene from the documentary Explorer: Warlords of Ivory, a screener at Tanzanias airport accuses Bryan Christy of smuggling. 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. 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. 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. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Some elephant populations seem to be missing their tusks. To her relief, the men turned out to be local. She looks at the floor while her friends whisper to each other, smile radiantly, and nibble on cookies weve brought for them. 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. In June three more Garamba-based officers were killed. Mozambique's elephants declined from an estimated 20,000 to 10,300 during the same period. 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. Mozambiques civil war from 1977 to 1992 had a grim outcome for elephants: During that time, some 90% were killed for the ivory in their tusks, which were sold to finance the war. But she knew she had to leave; she's a researcher for a non-governmental wildlife organization, not some kind of soldier-of-fortune. We were expecting to find an amazing new world of sound to record, and the experience lived up to its reputation the insects, the tropical downpours, and of course the cacophony of the elephants themselves. Onen had been part of an LRA poaching operation in Garamba consisting of 41 fighters, including Konys son Salim. During the same period, neighboring Mozambique is reported to have lost 48 percent of its elephants. The cook, Djimet Said (opposite), was shot but survived, walking 11 miles to the nearest village for help. 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. 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. Eventually, more than four tons was found, Africas largest seizure since the global ivory trade ban took effect in 1990. So I said to myself, 'I better go into a very passive mode.' Ivory poachers are killing some 22,000 African elephants a year. ", Andrea Turkalo sketched the ears and other details of the elephants she studied to help identify them. 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. Such genes ought to disappear, Roca says, because females that lack them would have more offspring. Such a biased sex ratio would be expected with a recessive gene that kills males when they inherit it. When he shows up, he picks up a tusk and runs his finger over the butt end. The poaching issue is a governance issue, Froment says. Soldiers killed elephants for their ivory tusks, which were extremely valuable. Elephant tusks are elongated incisors. TEXT EDITOR: Oliver Payne. The three of us eat together (the police chief, a Muslim, leaves the beer to us). He wasnt contrite. 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. Elephant slaughter increased in the 1950s, where it is estimated that 250 elephants were killed per day. In January 2014, while x-raying a Vietnam-bound container declared to hold cashews, Togolese port authorities saw something strange: ivory. The elephants coat themselves in red clay. This story launches the National Geographic Societys Special Investigations Unit, which will report on wildlife crimes. It consists of a battery capable of lasting more than a year, a GPS receiver, an Iridium satellite transceiver, and a temperature sensor. 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. Using Kermeens technology, he could adjust how many times a day they tried to communicate with a satellite via the Internet. Eight more are considered of secondary concern: Cameroon, Congo, the DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mozambique, and Nigeria. Its easier to live with things, she says. 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. We can't change the last bit we can shape the future. I didn't go looking for this. Why are you collecting ivory? Otti demanded of Kony. He went first to Sudan, initiating a pattern of border-hopping that continues to make him difficult to track. 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. 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. - 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. We protect the elephant to protect the park. So if a tuskless mom had babies CAMPBELL-STATON: She has a 50% chance of passing the trait on to her offspring. We are in charge of the futures of our animals and earth and making a world for future generations to thrive in. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Its only the ivory that will make the LRA strong, he recalls Konysaying. What can be done to help save the elephants? ", Turkalo says she walked up to the man in charge and saw he had an AK-47 assault rifle. During the summer Konys soldiers had killed 25 elephants in Garamba, and they were on their way back to Kony carrying the ivory. They shot 26 elephants and cut out their tusks. " Turkalo and the other women stopped their boat, afraid they'd be fired on if they kept going. Now, researchers report this intense hunting dramatically altered a major elephant population there, favoring female elephants born without tusks. Forest elephants linger on a misty morning at the Dzanga bai. Kony is a former Roman Catholic altar boy whose stated mission is to overthrow the Ugandan government on behalf of the Acholi people of northern Uganda, and to rule the country according to his version of the Ten Commandments. 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. Or will they go nowhere, discovered before theyre moved and turned in by an honest person? After Lucienne Lanziwas husband died in an LRA attack on Garamba, she got a modest stipend. Our airport incident was one of many hiccups with the artificial tusks. 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. Sudan. By 1913, the African elephant population had dropped to an estimated 10 million. In a public square in Am Timan, shortly before his trial, he shouted, I know who betrayed me! They included South Sudanese armed forces (SPLA) and Sudanese military, as well as defectors from those militaries and an assortment of Sudan-based rebels. But Dante, who is one of the worlds most respected taxidermists, has never done what Im asking him to do. Suddenly they move steadily north, about 12 miles a day along the border with South Sudan, avoiding all roads. This story was originally published in the September 2015 issue of National Geographicmagazine. Will they go north, the most violent ivory path on the African continent? That's where Princeton evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton found himself a few years ago. She well remembers the day when the war came to the bai. Despite their lack of tusks, it's often the females who can be seen defending the herd. But it failed to rout Kony or his leadership. In the morning, after officials from Tanzanias Wildlife Division and the U.S. Embassy arrive, Im released. Theyre looting communities, enslaving people, and killing park rangers who get in their way. 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. All of central Africa is a hand grenade, its pin pulled by a history of resource exploitation from abroad, dictatorships, and poverty. 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. 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. 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. By 1913, the African elephant population had dropped to an estimated 10 million. PHOTO EDITOR: Kathy Moran. 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. 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. Now it was rare to see 250 in aherd. Among the recent casualties was a group of rare forest elephants in the Central African Republic. Once the war and poaching ended,elephants with tusks were more likely to survive because they could use their tusks to find . They also had twice as many daughters as sons. At that point she'd already dedicated more than a decade of her life to studying forest elephants, which for centuries had remained hidden within the dense canopy of the rain forest. We ask if she recognized any of the elephants in the photos taken of their carcasses after the poachers fled. Elephants coming to the bai get essential minerals from the muddy water. We'll tell you more about them Friday, on NPR's Morning Edition. First, Campbell-Staton wanted to make sure the proportion of tuskless elephants in Mozambique had indeed changed. The Central African Republic (CAR). This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Boko Haram also uses the bush as a baseNigerias Sambisa Forest, a game reserve south of Lake Chad. There, Onen says, Konys men trade ivory with the Sudanese military for salt, sugar, and arms. ", 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. Another potential knock-on is changes to the broader landscape, as the study has revealed that tusked and tuskless animals eat different plants. So why elephants? The New York Times Archives. (Special thanks to the National Public Radio - National Geographic Society Radio Expeditions Sound Collection at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, for sharing the audio.). Andrea Turkalo looks through a scope in 2002 from the observation platform she built along the edge of the bai. ", Now, a year later, Andrea is stoic about the loss. MCCAMMON: Campbell-Staton and his team worked with local researchers who had tracked elephants for decades. All creatures should live in harmony! That evening, they floated by a village. Where did the tusks end up? Widows now get a sum equal to six years of a rangers salary. She and other scientists also recorded their calls. Our next story begins in a place many of us are familiar with - up awake, watching a YouTube video at 3 in the morning. Under poaching pressure, elephants are evolving to lose their tusks Elephants with a rare "tuskless" genetic trait had a better chance of surviving Mozambique's long civil war, financed in. And someoneits unclear whois believed to be killing elephants from helicopters, as evidenced by bullet holes in the tops of skulls and the removal of tusks by what can only be chain saws. By Jake Buehler. 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. 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. Arent you interested in peace talks?. I unzip my suitcase to expose two fake tusks and hand him letters from the U.S. So why elephants? This behavior is associated with mourning, field researchers say. That's painful to imagine, especially for anyone who's had the chance to watch these animals. Between April 25 and June 17, poachers killed two Garamba rangers and two army officers assisting with patrols. Civil war drove these elephants to lose their tusksthrough evolution. 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