Comments on: China Denies Links to Elephant Poaching in Kenya

By: Rhishja Larson

Rhishja Larson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:54:07 +0000

Hi Swathi -

Just sent you an email. Thanks!

By: Swathi

Swathi — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:54:49 +0000

Dear Rhishja,

I am more than pleased to introduce our organization BIOTECH FORENSICS which is located in Nairobi, Kenya, We are a state-of-the-art DNA testing facility and would LOVE TO be of service in any way that we can. As you mention above there are no DNA evidence crime lab and we are hoping that our organization can change that!.. We are a private institution and perhaps we can talk more about how we can help out offline?

Best regards,

Swathi Seshadri

By: Illegal Ivory Shipments Worth Millions Seized at Kenya, Nairobi Airports : EcoWorldly

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:18:50 +0000

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By: Rhishja Larson

Rhishja Larson — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:15:02 +0000

From the author:

Thank you for your great question. Using DNA to solve poaching crimes has shown great promise. For example, it has been used to track down origins of poached elephants, due to genetic variations between populations (in a previous article). However, I have read that one of the problems is that there are just not that many crime labs equipped with wildlife DNA expertise. If only an entire lab could be devoted to solving elephant poaching crimes via DNA evidence, then perhaps the guilty parties would have nowhere left to hide.

By: S Gainsborough

S Gainsborough — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:12:02 +0000

This is simply dredful. Is this a naive question? Can
the chinese ivory be linked back via dna sampling of ivories on sale?

Sorry if this sounds too simplistic and probably already considered.

Tawnycrat

By: Kinoti

Kinoti — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:23:01 +0000

I like the format of your website who designed it and how much did it cost?