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Forensic zoology 法医动物学 The elephant in the room 房间里的大象保护大象，刻不容缓! Dating ivory has just become easier. Poachersbeware 确定象牙年代已变得更容易了，偷猎者们要小心喽! FEW megafauna are more charismatic than elephants, and that charisma gives thempolitical clout. 在大型动物里，没有几种动物可以匹敌大象的魅力，这种魅力让大象很有政治影响。 On July 1st, for example, Barack Obama used the Tanzanian leg of his tour of Africa toannounce an executive order intended to give teeth to America s obligation, as a partyto the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, to prevent the smuggling ofpoached ivory. 比如说今年7月1日，奥巴马总统在非洲行程中的坦桑尼亚站宣布了一项行政命令，该命令旨在通过强制实施有效手段来更好地履行美国《濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》的一员防止偷运偷猎象牙的义务。 The rules on trading ivory, though, are hard to enforce,for if it comes from an animal killed before 1990 such trade is legal. 但是，针对象牙贸易的规定很难实行，因为如果象牙来自的大象是在1990年之前被杀的，那么这种贸易是合法的。 | 
