DNA database helps Nepal’s officials monitor tigers, punish poachers

Mongabay
Sep 7, 2018, 5:00 am399 pts
In December 2015, officials from Nepal’s Central Investigation Bureau had a hunch that something was amiss with the country’s tigers. The bureau, in the past few months, had seized more than 15 suspected tiger parts (13 pieces of skin and two blood-smeared knives) from various areas of Nepal. Their main…

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