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RhODIS, the rhino DNA indexing system developed in South Africa to help investigate illegal horn trafficking, is to be used in India to help prevent poaching of greater one-horned rhinos. Dr Cindy Harper, director of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Genetics Laboratory...
Last week we were welcomed into Glasgow Museums Resource Centre in Scotland on an unusual mission. We were there to photograph staff taking DNA samples of rhino horn from stuffed animals to help in the fight against rhino horn thefts...
A ground-breaking rhino DNA database being used to dramatically improve prosecution of poachers and horn traffickers may be extended to help fight the illegal trade in body parts of lions and other African species. The RhoDIS database created by the...
The offices and laboratories may be shiny and modern, but CSI Miami it ain’t. On a damp, grey Scottish morning, the SASA complex on the western fringes of Edinburgh feels a million miles away from Florida’s steamy tropical surroundings. A...