By
Kenneth Macdonald & Marc Ellison BBC Scotland
4 January
2019
Scientists
based at Edinburgh Zoo are cooperating to create a genetics laboratory in
Cambodia to fight the illegal ivory trade.
While
trying to save elephants, they have found ivory from another animal that is now
extinct.
In the
WildGenes laboratory of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Dr Alex Ball
is drilling what sounds like a giant tooth.
Which is
in effect what it is: an ornately carved elephant tusk.
The lab
is working with three partners in a project funded by the UK government's
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Together
they are building Cambodia's scientific capacity to preserve its wildlife and
combat the ivory trade which passes through it.
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