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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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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Progress of DNA Barcode of Wildlife Informatics Training Workshop



Dr David Schindel, CBOL, gives an overview of DNA Barcode of Wildlife Informatics Training Workshop held at Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub, in Kenya. The objective of the training is to provide lab training in the methods associated with the DNA barcoding pipeline. 




 Wide range of hands-on experience  
Specifically, participants will acquire skills in DNA extraction, amplification, purification and sequencing of plant, animal and blood samples. They are also gaining:
●  hands-on experience using a range of lab equipment and reagents
● experience working at different scales / sample sizes
● understanding of the processes involved in barcoding and how to deal with the different success rates and the properties of different markers.


Dr Dan Masiga, ICIPE, enlightens participants
Identification of trace evidence that can assist wildlife crime case by proving an offense has taken place, identifying an offender, linking an offender to both crime scene and items removed from a crime scene with that scene all form a critical part in compiling a case.

Through these experiences, DNA barcoding in Kenya will ultimately help prosecute wildlife criminals.

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