- MIKE stands for Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants
- Comes under CITES
- It was started in South Asia in 2003 with the following objective:
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- To measure levels and trends in illegal hunting of elephants.
- To determine changes in these trends overtime.
- To determine the factors causing or associated with these changes and to try and assess in particular to what extent observed trends are a result of any decisions taken by the Conference of the Parties to CITES.
- In India, Project Elephant has been formally implementing MIKE
- Data are collected from all sites on monthly basis in specified MIKE patrol form and submitted to Sub-Regional Support Office for South Asia Programme in Delhi who are assisting Ministry in implementation of the programme