The government of Togo, a small West African country with a dwindling population of elephants, recently sought assistance from Samuel Wasser,聽Research Professor and Director of the . The Togolese government sought information about ivory thought to be illegal, and Wasser provided a report demonstrating that the ivory samples provided indeed came from illegal sources. 聽
International experts predict聽that new forensic technologies like the ones used by Wasser will help illuminate origins and pathways of illegal ivory and eventually end the trade altogether.