Daily, the list of endangered animals grows. In Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, national park rangers stopped smugglers who killed twenty-two elephants including babies. The smugglers had almost $45,000 of ivory. Hit the jump to find out where the ivory was headed and more. Beware, photos will seem graphic.

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These smugglers, also known as poachers, poison elephants with cyanide. Elephants unknowingly eat oranges soaked in the poison and eventually fall the the ground. In 2013 alone, around 200 elephants died this way. This year, 62 elephants died by poacher cyanide in Zimbabwe alone.

Smugglers and national park rangers fight in a war over endangered animals. In this particular case, poachers planned to transport the ivory (almost 380 pounds of it) to Singapore- where pretty much everything comes with a cash price. This ivory would net exactly $43,250.

Meanwhile, park rangers instituted two new methods of tracking down smugglers. They hope trained dogs and drones will assist officials in finding smugglers before poachers find endangered animals.

Source: CBS