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Southern Africa
Subregional PIKE Trends The graph below shows the trends in the proportion of illegally killed elephants (PIKE) at reporting sites in Southern Africa. The data underlying this chart can be...
Eastern Africa
Subregional PIKE trends in Eastern Africa The graph below shows the trends in the proportion of illegally killed elephants (PIKE) at reporting sites in Eastern Africa. The data underlying this...
Central Africa
Subregional PIKE Trends The graph below shows the trends in the proportion of illegally killed elephants (PIKE) at reporting sites in Central Africa. The data underlying this chart can be...
Cause of death
Determining cause of death Determining the likely cause of death can be extremely difficult, especially with older carcasses – signs can be very hard to discover even on a fresh...
Aging the individual
Knowing the age of an animal at the time of death is another important data point. There are two ways of ageing a dead elephant: Broad age class : classify...
Sexing
Male (left) and female (right) live elephants. From Kangwana (1996) “Studying Elephants”. The sex of a dead elephant can be determined by examining the animal’s body, skull and/or tusks. Telling...
Carcass class
Carcasses are categorised for MIKE by four broad classes. Correctly determining the actual time of death (i.e. three days, six weeks, etc) of a carcass is extremely difficult, as many...
Investigation process
This is an introduction to the process of investigation – the minimum steps one can follow to examine cause of death, age and sex, and other information. Many, if not...
Elephant carcass investigation guidelines
Welcome to the CITES MIKE carcass forensic materials section. Here we present resources for the forensic investigation of elephant carcasses by patrol staff who are gathering data on elephant mortality...
The 181st Party: the European Union
The CITES Secretariat is pleased to welcome the European Union as the 181st Party to CITES. The European Union is a regional economic integration organization (REIO) with 28 Member States...