From 02 to 06 September 2024, ERAIFT participated in the training workshop of national focal points "CITES MIKE" and forest rangers training institutions in Central Africa on collecting elephant mortality data, monitoring based on rangers and using real-time operations to combat poachers. This workshop was organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the “École de Faune de Garoua (EFG)” in Cameroon.

The CITES Illegal killing of Elephants (MIKE) Monitoring Programme is a site-related system designed to monitor trends in illegal killing of elephants, building management capacity and providing information to assist range states in making appropriate management and anti-fraud (poaching) decisions. Thus, MIKE aims to help these states improve their capacity to monitor elephant populations, to detect changes in levels of unlawful killing and use this information to ensure more effective enforcement and strengthen the regulatory measures necessary to support enforcement.

Participants in this workshop came from several countries of central Africa, including Cameroon, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic and Chad. 

ERAIFT thanks the CITES Secretariat and the École de Faune de Garoua for having been associated to this training workshop and expressed its gratitude to the European Union for its support.