Notifications to the Parties

No. 2000/052 Geneva, 31 August 2000

CONCERNING:

Establishing a Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
for the programme to Monitor the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE)

1. In response to Notification to the Parties No. 2000/025 of 23 March 2000, the Secretariat received, from a large number of Parties, nominations for membership of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the MIKE programme. It wishes to thank them all for their co-operation.

2. The Secretariat is pleased to inform Parties that the MIKE Subgroup of the CITES Standing Committee has accepted the nominations listed in the enclosed table.

3. The TAG comprises representatives from all six sub-regions of Africa and Asia where elephants occur as well as co-opted technical experts, as provided for in the Terms of Reference for the TAG in Notification to the Parties No. 2000/025.

4. All nominees confirmed to the Secretariat their willingness to participate in the TAG according to the Terms of Reference established for this group by the Standing Committee.

Members of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
for the programme to Monitor the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE)

Name	Country / Institution	Representing
Dr G. Colin Craig	Ministry of Environment and Tourism Namibia	Southern Africa
Dr Iain Douglas Hamilton	Kenya	East Africa
Mr Moses Kofi Sam	Wildlife Department Ghana	West Africa
Dr Raman Sukumar	Centre for Ecological Sciences Indian Institute of Science India	South Asia
Dr Martin Tchamba	World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Northern Savannah Project WWF Cameroon Programme Office Cameroon	Central Africa
Mr Yue Zhang	Endangered Species Import and Export Management Office of the People's Republic of China China	Southeast Asia
Dr Richard F. W. Barnes	Department of Biology University of California San Diego United States of America	Technical expert
Dr Kenneth Burnham	Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit United States Geological Survey United States of America	Technical expert
Dr Holly T. Dublin	Africa and Madagascar Programme World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Switzerland	Technical expert
Dr Hugo Jachmann	Wildlife Monitoring Unit Environmental Council of Zambia Zambia	Technical expert

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