WILDLIFE FORENSIC – USING DNA TO PROTECT WILDLIFE

'DNA identification' has become a term almost everybody understands, at least to some extent. This is due to increased mentioning of research in newspapers and other media, but maybe even more because of popular crime investigation series on TV and in movies. Lesser known is the fact that DNA analysis is increasingly useful when it comes to protecting even wildlife from crime! In this webinar, I will present a short introduction to the field and present some real life examples, where DNA analysis has helped to protect wildlife in court.

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Photo show burning of illegally hunted ivory. Taken by Mwangi Kirubi (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons