4 Watch: The result of his idea
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Bryan covered the whole story in National Geographic titled “Tracking Ivory”, in which he wrote, “"Poorly equipped park rangers try to defend poachers. 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 hiding them in national parks. They're looting communities, enslaving people, and killing park rangers who get in their way.” He even found out that the funds received from this ivory trade financed many terrorist organizations. Most of the ivory landed in China, where it was sold for millions of dollars.
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