The Dhaka Times Desk Researchers have adopted a new approach to save elephants from illegal traders. Due to this technique of scientists, living elephants will survive due to the tusks of dead elephants.
There is a saying that 'even if an elephant lives, lakhs of taka, if it dies, lakhs of taka'. The price of the teeth of the largest animal on earth is more than the whole body of any other animal. This temptation is killing people all over the world. And so finally scientists have come to the field how to save these elephants.
According to a survey, at least 30,000 elephants are killed every year. Scientists have developed a very effective way to prevent the killing of elephants in exchange for tusks and strengthen the failed law. To prevent poaching, all countries agreed long ago to ban poaching and the illegal trade in ivory. This ban was imposed in the Asian continent in 1975. Most elephants live in Africa. This law came into force in Africa in 1989. But still not much profit. Less and less, there are now only 4 lakh 23 thousand elephants in Africa. A major reason for the failure to deter poachers is the lack of tools or means for law enforcement agencies in the countries concerned to identify 'illegal teeth'.
US scientists claim that they have now been able to invent a way that will easily eliminate this helplessness of law enforcement agencies. How is that possible using carbon-14 used in molecular experiments and therefore released into the atmosphere? The results of a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States provide that hope. In the 1950s, Russia (the then Soviet Union) released carbon-14 into the atmosphere by conducting nuclear tests in Siberia. In the 1960s, the United States did the same in Nevada. There is no end to the bad side of molecular testing, this time the elephants will get the benefit of the good. Wherever ivory is found, it will be tested to see how much carbon-14 it contains. The results will tell when the elephant was killed. Since killing of any elephant has been banned since 1989, it will be known whether the killing took place before 1975 or after that. Then what does it take to punish the money-grubbing illegal traders!
Columbia University researcher Kevin Uno, lead author of the paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is confident that what the experiments have shown so far will be an effective anti-handicide. So far, scientists working with the cells of 29 animals and plants have found that it is possible to know when the animal or plant died. Proving a crime like this would only cost $500, which is a pittance compared to the price of ivory. In this way, laws will be enforced to protect living ones by examining dead elephant tusks. And this is how these elephant breeds will live. Source: Online
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