The lab where seized ivory starts talking

In Entebbe, Uganda, scientists at the new Wildlife Forensics and Timber Laboratory are reading the DNA of seized ivory, pangolin scales, and bushmeat — and their evidence is putting poachers away. Backed by Denmark, the EU, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the lab's findings are so decisive that suspects in Uganda's wildlife court are increasingly pleading guilty; in one case, DNA proved seized skins came from bushbuck, ending in a three-year prison sentence.