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Through the use of world-class life sciences tools, capabilities and processes, Kenya will leapfrog older crime fighting techniques to enhance the capabilities to protect our biodiversity.

Using scientific procedures to examine, identify, and compare evidence from crime scenes, and to link the evidence with a suspect and a victim, which is specifically an animal or plant, it’s a sure way to enact progressive and stringent policies that would deter criminals as well as adopt modern technology that would assist the criminal justice system to effectively convict and grant appropriate sentences as prescribed in law to wildlife crime perpetrators.

Poaching is one of the most serious crimes investigated by wildlife forensics. The modern DNA-based molecular methods will aid in the fight against the poaching of endangered and protected species, and in the prevention of cruelty to animals. The laboratory will enable our continent to fight against poaching and offer services for all African countries especially those in the East and Central regions that are battling this new, dangerous and bloody trade.

Let’s all bridge the gap between conservation genetics and law enforcement.

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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Legal Standards and Forensics Workshop

Kenya has held a Legal Standards and Forensics workshop aiming to police crimes against wildlife such as poaching.

The workshop also aims to get a better understanding of the scientific processes that wildlife species' samples have to go through in order to provide a validated outcome for illegal poaching cases in court.
Kenya has adopted a DNA technology capable of creating barcodes from genetic material for the identification of ivory and other wildlife products.

As Kenya Wildlife Service manages to apprehend hunters and other wildlife offenders, it is nearly impossible to obtain a conviction without irrefutable evidence.

Participants in this worthy workshop  include Kenya Wildlife Service, National Museums of Kenya, The Judiciary, the Government Chemist, Barcode of Life International, among others.

In picture: David Schindel from Smithsonian Institution, and the Executive Secretary of Consortium for the Barcode of Life Project makes a presentation to participants at the Barcode of Wildlife Project Legal standards workshop at Kenya Wildlife Service Training Institute, Naivasha.
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