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July 5, 2002
A World Wide Web of Information: Key to Combating Wildlife Crime
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Over 30,000 species of animals and plants are considered to be potentially at risk of extinction, many of them due to the illegal trade in wildlife. The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( DEFRA) has been interested for some time in the use of DNA-based tests to aid law enforcement and to help combat this illegal trade. In early 2000 they decided to f...