Elephants In The Dust

Illegal ivory tra cking routes

MOROCCO

Cairo

LIBYA

ALGERIA

EGYPT

Western Sahara

QATAR

DUBAI

MAURITANIA

MALI

CHAD

SUDAN

Khartoum

NIGER

ERITREA

SENEGAL

GUINEA BISSAU GAMBIA

BURKINA FASO

DJIBOUTI

BENIN

GUINEA

GHANA

SOMALILAND

NIGERIA

SIERRA LEONE

ETHIOPIA

TOGO

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

IVORY COAST

T o S i n g a p o r e v i a D u b a i

SOUTH SUDAN

LIBERIA

T o E u o p e a n d U S A

Lagos

Douala

CAMEROON

SOMALIA

UGANDA

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

KENYA

EQ. GUINEA

Nairobi

African elephant range

GABON

RWANDA

Known Possible

CONGO

Mombasa

BURUNDI

Kinshasa

TANZANIA

Dar es Salaam

Ivory smuggling hotspots

T o S o u t h E a s t A s i a a n d C h i n a

Luanda

Zanzibar

Major transit point or area Major domestic market

T o S o u t h E a s t A s i a a n d C h i n a

ANGOLA

Lubumbashi

MALAWI

Exit point, by air Exit point, by sea

Pemba

Lilongwe

ZAMBIA Lusaka

MOZAMBIQUE

Ivory smuggling routes Other shipping ports

Livingstone

MADAGASCAR

ZIMBABWE

Beira

Land route Main shipping route Other shipping route

NAMIBIA

Beitbridge

T o S o u t h E a s t A s i a a n d C h i n a

BOTSWANA

Maputo

SWAZILAND

Sources: CITES, COP14 Proposal 6, 2007;Wasser, S., K., et al., Using DNA to track the origin of the largest ivory seizure since the 1989 trade ban, PNAS, 2007; Environment Investigation Agency (EIA), How China’s illegal ivory trade is causing a 21st century African elephant disaster, 2007; UNODC, Promoting health, security and justice, 2010; personal communication with Dr Christian Nelleman, GRID-Arendal, 2012.

LESOTHO

T o S o u t h E a s t A s i a a n d C h i n a

Durban

SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Town

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