by MIKE Programme | Oct 1, 2020 | MIKE News
MIKE All Africa Regional Meeting Held Fifty representatives from 26 African elephant range States met in Kenya to deliberate on the implementation of the CITES programme, Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) across the African continent. It was the first...
by MIKE Programme | May 10, 2019 | CITES News
Status update on the postponement of CoP18 On 26 April 2019, the CITES Secretariat announced the postponement of the 18ᵗʰ meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP18), originally scheduled to take place from 23 May to 3 June in Colombo, Sri Lanka, as well as the...
by MIKE Programme | May 1, 2019 | CITES News
CITES Secretariat presents its assessment of and recommendations on species listing proposals for CoP18 The CITES Secretariat has now posted Document 105.1, presenting its final assessments of the proposals to amend Appendices I and II of the Convention. These 57...
by MIKE Programme | Apr 28, 2019 | MIKE News
Uganda boosts efforts to strengthen wildlife management capacity and protect elephants Two new eight-man ranger posts built with support from the Government of Japan and the EU through the CITES MIKE Programme were handed over to the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) on...
by MIKE Programme | Jan 4, 2019 | CITES News
Proposals to change protection levels of species under international trade at CoP18 available online 57 proposals to amend the lists of species subject to CITES regulations were submitted by 90 countries for consideration at the next World Wildlife Conference –...
by MIKE Programme | Nov 27, 2018 | MIKE News
Marine Ranger Unit operational again in Queen Elizabeth National Park Queen Elizabeth National Park is dominated by water. With eleven fishing villages throughout the park the waterways are a busy and important economy to tens of thousands of people. However, as the...
by MIKE Programme | May 27, 2018 | MIKE News
Elephant poaching levels appear to remain stable and unacceptably high in 2018 The CITES MIKE Programme analysis of the 2018 trends in the poaching of African elephants show that the steady increase in the levels of illegal killing of elephants witnessed since 2006,...
by MIKE Programme | Apr 28, 2018 | MIKE News
MIKE All-Asia Regional Meeting Held On 28 April 2018, the MIKE Asia Regional Meeting was held in Bangkok, back-to-back with the Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) meeting. The MIKE Asia Regional Meeting was attended by all range state officials, AsESG members,...
by MIKE Programme | Oct 27, 2017 | MIKE News
Anti-Poaching Operations Centre opens in Chewore Safari Area, Zimbabwe A Strategic Anti-Poaching Operations Centre located in the Chewore Safari Area in Zimbabwe was handed over by Japanese Ambassador, Toshiyuki Iwado, to the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management...
by MIKE Programme | Mar 27, 2017 | MIKE News
CITES to help combat illegal wildlife trade in West Africa’s most important protected area complex At the Triple Point in the heart of Park W, where the territories of Benin, Niger and Burkina Faso meet, the General Directors of the wildlife management agencies from...
