Lisa Brown
The illegal slaughter of African elephants for ivory is now worse than it was at its peak in the
1980s. The most effective way to contain this illegal trade is to determine where poaching is occurring.
Two Bayesian methods, Voronoi and SCAT, can be used to simultaneously map elephant populations
over the entire African continent and determine the geographic origin(s) of poached elephant ivory using
genetic data. I will present some results of these methods applied to a large volume contraband seizure
from Singapore and illustrate the genetic implications of poaching.
