That's why most countries have laws to protect endangered animals. Until recently most crimes against animals went unpunished . But now the Clark R. Bavin National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, is changing that. Lab scientists study evidence gathered by wildlife officers. We also get guns, chemicals, claws, teeth, bones, skulls, hides, and objects made from endangered animals.
Evidence arrives from every state and many foreign countries.
The lab's work, called forensics, provides clues and evidence to be used in a court of law. The evidence can connect criminals to crimes, including illegal hunting, oil spills, poisonings, wildlife smuggling, and trading in animal souvenirs . Many are not legal. As for the killed mother grizzly, Keeney shipped the carcass to the lab. Scientists traced the path of the fatal bullet.