The transnational trade in modern ivory is banned in a bid to protect elephants – but the trade of ancient mammoth tusks is not.
However, telling the difference between illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth ivory has proven to be a real problem for border security.
But now, lasers could the solution.
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