Name: 象牙之戰 (Panorama - Ivory Wars: Out of Africa (12 Apr 2012) [BBC])
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'The African elephant, the largest animal on Earth, is under threat.

'Some herds are being decimated at an alarming rate.'

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We're truly worried about the future of elephants.

Some places have lost almost all their elephants.

'They are still being hunted for their ivory despite a trade ban in place for more than 20 years.'

Ask him about the elephant that was killed.

These people are armed, very well armed - G3s, AK-47s.

'Even the youngest are in the firing line.'

Kasigau over there has got a clear wound.

'And seizures of illegal ivory are at a new high.'

What is at the heart of the illegal killing of elephants in Africa

How much is this one? 'We go under cover to find the ivory dealers.'

'We see the new technology being used to track down the criminals.'

These poachers are hammering the sam area over and over and over again.

'We go on the trail of the poachers, smugglers and organised crime syndicates

'into a web that stretches to south-east Asia and beyond...

90% of all the people we have arrested at our airports ferrying ivory...

China is the future for elephants. If China can curb its demand...

'Port Klang near Kuala Lumpur. It's the busiest port in Malaysia

'and the last stop for vessels heading to the Far East.'

'For three months, Customs have been tracking a container from Africa.

'Intelligence has alerted them to contraband hidden deep within packing crates.

'Nearly one and a half tonnes of illegal ivory,

'worth almost a million pounds, the equivalent of around 150 dead elephants.

'And all this at a time when an international ban is supposed to stop the killing.'

We found that the container was full of...

Despite a 23-year international ban on the trade in ivory,

all indications are that demand is booming,

Last year saw the highest number of large seizures of illegal ivory

'Up until the middle of last year, Malaysia hadn't made a single large ivory seizure in nearly a decade.

'This is their fourth large bust in just five months.'

All we're doing here is stopping the smuggler

from getting his products. It's really good.

We need more of this, so we shut down the business.

'Today, Malaysia is the latest country to emerge for ivory smuggling,

'but it's just one of the many staging posts around the world

'in a multi-million-pound criminal trade.'

It takes a large amount of organised activity to be able to move

and manoeuvre all these activities to the product ending up in Asia,

'So to understand the links in this chain, I'm going back to where it all begins - Africa.

'Man has always hunted elephants here - for meat, sport and for ivory.

'Its tusks were traditionally used in carvings, piano keys and even false teeth.

'Today, some conservationists fear killings are so out of control

'that elephants could soon disappear for ever in parts of the continent.

'Tourism is essential to the country's economy,

'a place where elephants have recently thrived,

'I'm following the trail left by elephant poachers.'

We're on our way with Stephen, who is the conservation warden for the West Gate Community here,

because we've heard that there's an elephant which has been killed,

the carcass of which is, I think, not very far away.

This was killed right here? It has been killed using bullets, a gun.

Death always brings this disgusting, high, sweet smell

and it seems to sort of hit you in the stomach and cling to your skin and your hair,

but more than the smell, actually, it's the shocking sight of this adult female elephant

with her face having been hacked off because the poachers wanted to take the tusks.

'Older elephants, due to the size of their tusks, are most vulnerable to the poachers' snares and guns.'

'The warden thinks two poachers were involved in the slaughter.

'Just a few feet away lie the remains of the elephant's dead baby.'

Oh, these are the ribs of the little elephant? Yeah.

'The carcass was found just outside the gates of Samburu National Reserve.

'It's a base for Save The Elephants, a charity founded by Iain Douglas-Hamilton.

'Iain witnessed the decimation of Kenya's herds in the 1970s and '80s when numbers plummeted.

'They recovered after the ivory trade ban was agreed in 1989.

'But in the last three years, Samburu has lost a quarter of its elephants,

At the moment, we're having a poaching spike.

This spike is very serious because if it got out of hand,

'Poaching has an enormous impact on the herd as a whole.

'Elephants live in a matriarchal family where females lead the group.'

They really live in a multi-tiered system

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