Earning its stripes: tech bid to crack tiger trade

A file photo shows a Royal Bengal Tiger pausing as it walks through a jungle clearing in Kaziranga National Park, some 280kms east of Guwahati. Anyone with photographs of tigers is invited to submit them to the EIA to help bolster the AI database. — AFP

MONTROSE, United Kingdom: In a town in northeastern Scotland, Debbie Banks looks for clues to track down criminals as she clicks through a database of tiger skins.

There are thousands of photographs, including of rugs, carcasses and taxidermy specimens.