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♤ Mandated by COP resolution of CITES, MIKE program started in South Asia in the year 2003 with following purpose -
♤ To provide information needed for elephant range States to make appropriate management and enforcement decisions, and to build institutional capacity within the range States for the long-term management of their elephant populations
Main objectives
1. to measure levels and trends in the illegal hunting of elephants;
2. to determine changes in these trends over time; and
3. to determine the factors causing or associated with such 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
♤ Under the programme data are being collected from all sites on monthly basis in specified MIKE patrol form and submited to Sub Regional Support Office for South Asia Programme located in Delhi who are assisting Ministry in the implementation of the progremme.
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White tigers are not a separate sub-species, but are white in color due to an expression of recessive genes