narrrrator: al shabaab levies a% to 7 7% tax on i ivory that t ps ththrough areas they control, mamaking aboutut$250,000 0 a yr from i ivory. ininsurgent groups and armeded forces units are not the only poachers. local villagers, who know the terrain, are also involved, and they are increasingly recruited by well-financed, organized criminal groups. roberts: when you kill an elephant and you sell that ivory y tusk in ththe bush, it's only going to be maybe $25 or $100. there might be a 500% markup by t the time it gets to the consolidating point for export, and then a 4,000% markup by the time it reachehes the marketpla. hutson: it's the middlemen and the people on the other end, on the dememand side, who really are becoming r rich off of this. vira: you know, even though the poaching might happen at sort of the bush level in a very gritty way, very quickly you start moving up the chain to find very significantnt, popowerful, and wealthy people controlling the trade. peters: so you don't see animals killed o on spec. there's always a b buyer in plae and the financing in place for it. and we see