>One way it could be useful is if you can trace a set of ivory back to a single poaching network, to understand the network's reach. And that is exactly what t

>One way it could be useful is if you can trace a set of ivory back to a single poaching network, to understand the network's reach. And that is exactly what they're doing - mapping the ivory trade back to the regions where its occurring, so that they can indeed find out where the network operates and therefore allocate resources to stopping it. Discovering that a majority of the tusks came from a particular park is stopping the network where it operates. Governments can go to those parks and start their investigation into why there is so much ivory coming from their area - uprooting the corrupt networks that allow it to occur.