Outside — Bangkok and the ivory trade
March 2010: Outside published Following the Ivory Poaching Trail in Bangkok, describing an early public phase of the Elephant Ivory Project. The reporting followed work with Trip Jennings in Bangkok, where the project was looking at the consumer end of the illegal ivory trade.
National Geographic — the project goes local
December 2010: National Geographic covered a Portland fundraiser, Go Wild: A Night of Fashion + Celebration to Save Elephants, and described Jennings and Andy Maser preparing for a forensic-biology expedition to the DRC.
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National Geographic — departure for the DRC
11 March 2011: The expedition was described as the culmination of roughly two years of development. Jennings and Maser were preparing to fly to Kinshasa carrying collection vials to help fill gaps in Samuel Wasser’s elephant DNA reference map.
National Geographic — field updates from Congo
- 22 March 2011 — Kinshasa, Terese Hart and the importance of TL2
- 29 March 2011 — the route from Kisangani and Kindu into TL2
- 12 April 2011 — Obenge, poaching pressure and the first samples
- 26 April 2011 — fresh dung, viable samples and the return journey
Other surviving references
The project was also linked or discussed by Elephant Journal, PDX Monthly, Gadling, Scienceline, National Geographic Adventure’s former Typepad site and a number of personal and conservation blogs. Some of those pages contain only a brief reference; others help establish the project’s public footprint.
Why these links matter
For this archive, contemporary coverage is more than a press list. It is the evidence used to reconstruct the project’s chronology without inventing lost copy from the original website.
See the Project Timeline or return to The Elephant Ivory Project.