The journalist is Bryan Christy who works for National Geographic, who covers wild life in Central Africa. He was shocked to know that the population of elephants in the wild had fallen by 64% in last 10 years. He decided to uncover the whole process of how elephants are slaughtered in order to get their tusks and his work even landed him in jail. His investigative report was first published in 2015. After gathering his information, he came up with a brilliant idea to counter this trade. Click next to know what the idea was.
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Christy came up with an idea to install GPS trackers in order to see where the tusks goes after it is cut from the elephant. Christy went looking for someone who would make fake tusks for him and ultimately found a taxidermist who worked for museum. The team of Christy and the taxidermist and his people made lots of fake tusks and Christy was caught at the airport in Tanzania carrying the same tusks. His trackers told him that the tusks confiscated from him were taken to South Sudan and buried underground. Watch the video of his findings in the next slide.
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