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
University of Oregon — Travels with Trip
Oregon Quarterly profiled Trip Jennings and described the Elephant Ivory Project as a collaboration with Samuel Wasser’s University of Washington conservation-genetics work. The surviving article is especially useful because it explains the intended connection between field dung samples and later ivory-forensics analysis.
Read the Oregon Quarterly profile →
Audubon — adventurers contributing to science
Audubon later described Jennings and Andy Maser collecting elephant dung in the DRC for Samuel Wasser’s research and highlighted the difficulty of obtaining samples from the remote TL2 landscape.
Other surviving references
- Elephant Journal — early coverage of the project
- Portland Monthly — coverage around the 2010 Portland fundraiser
- Scienceline — 2011 profile and expedition context
Additional historical links survive on archived blogs and republished expedition coverage. We treat these as supporting evidence, while prioritising contemporary reporting from identifiable publications when reconstructing the project’s history.
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.