The CITES Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (or MIKE) Programme is a site-based system designed to monitor trends in levels of illegal killing of elephants and build capacity in sites spread across the range of African and Asian elephants. Information from MIKE is used by CITES Parties to inform decision making on elephant conservation and management. Read more about the MIKE Programme.
MIKE NETWORK
There are around 70 MIKE sites in 32 African elephant range States, and 28 MIKE sites in 13 Asian elephant range States. MIKE sites represent an estimated 50% of the African elephant population. Population estimates and distribution are less well known for Asian elephants, but the MIKE Programme has at least one site in all Asian range States. Each of these sites provides information to the MIKE programme on elephant carcasses discovered at the site during the year. Information collected and submitted include the type and the cause of elephant deaths. Participating range States are shown in green below.