land for rice and palm oil plantations and more than ever before they become targets for poachers after their tusks and skin. it's turned into medicine and so-called red blood beats highly sought after in china for jewelry. a fashion trend with the high cost researchers warn that the skin trade could wipe out mars wild elephant population in less than 60 years. but a lot. of the smithsonian's khan's a version of. how he started your one elephant gone for many years and was a key figure in covering the ports in crisis in myanmar he joins me now from washington d.c. bitter african elephants for the longest time dog it's a fortune but not of the best overextended to elephants as well what is driving this. lesser or so punching has happened in asian elephants before poaching 5 area