What skills do you need to track a forest elephant?

Désiré Deontegeo, who used to be a poacher in the rain forests of Cameroon, turned his skill to a good cause. He works as a forest tracker for the conservation organisation WWF. In this video Desire describes the skills needed to track a forest elephant. The elephants are darted in order to be fitted with a radio-satellite transmitter. The resulting data is used for purposes of forest conservation.

More here on African elephants: http://panda.org/africa/elephants

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