Special program under cites on elephants in diferent countries

1. Special Program under CITES on
elephant in different countries

2. What is CITES?
❖ Meaning: The Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora, also known as the Washington
Convention.
❖ Origin: adopted in 1963
opened for signature in 1973
entered into force on 1 July 1975
❖ Member countries: 183
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3. Some interesting things about
elephants
The largest land animal in the world
The longest pregnancy period.
Big brain
Matriarchy social order
Featured parts: ivory and tusks
Swim well

5. Elephants are
facing the
greatest crisis
in decades

6. ★ Loss of habitat leads to food shortages
★ Illegal hunting

9. MIKE programme

10. What is MIKE programme?
MIKE is a site-based system to monitor elephant population trends and the illegal
killing of elephant. This programme undertake building capacity amongst the
elephant range States in the following areas:
1. Site-based Population Surveys every 2 to 3 years.
2. Law Enforcement Monitoring to determine any real trends in illegal activities and
the factors that may be influencing any declines
3. Database management
4. Data analysis starting at the site and national levels.

11. 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 and their habitats by
-Improving their ability to monitor
elephant populations
- Detecting changes in levels of
illegal killing
-Using this information to provide
more effective law enforcement
-Strengthening any regulatory
measures required to support such
enforcement
- Using this information to reduce
human/elephant conflict
-Using this information and the
MIKE institutional arrangements to
foster cross border collaboration
relevant to cross border elephant
populations and ecosystems
-Establishing the MIKE system so
that it can be sustainable and
continue when external funding
assistance ceases

13. The charts above shows levels in the Proportion of Illegally Killed Elephants
(PIKE) in Africa

14. The data set used for analysis consist of 14,606 records of elephant carcasses
found between 2003 and the end of 2015 at 54 MIKE sites in 29 range States in
Africa, representing a total of 505 site-years. Data for Asian sites is still being
compiled and will be presented in the MIKE report to the 17th Meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to CITES, which will be held in Johannesburg, South
Africa, in September-October 2016.

15. The charts shows levels in the
Proportion of Illegally Killed
Elephants (PIKE) in Asia since
2003. The horizontal red line
shows the level of PIKE at 0.5,
i.e. where half the dead
elephants found in a given year
were illegally killed. This line
shows cause for serious
concern and may result in
elephant population declines.

16. Result of MIKE
★ MIKE has been able to document a sharp increase in levels of elephant poaching
in Africa since 2008, and to quantify the scale and impact of poaching on
elephant populations.
★ MIKE has identified poverty, poor governance and demand for ivory as the three
most likely drivers of the poaching trend.
★ Information provided by MIKE has helped put the issue on the international
agenda and has prompted decision makers at the national and international
levels to take decisive action.
★ MIKE has helped deploy ranger-based monitoring systems that assist protected
area managers and wildlife authorities to better use their resources to protect
their natural heritage.

17. ETIS program
What is ETIS stand for?
-ETIS is a comprehensive information system to track illegal
trade in ivory and other elephant products.
-Its aim is to record and analyse levels and trends in illegal trade,
rather than the illegal killing of elephants.

18. Achievement
(https://cites.org/eng/prog/etis/index.php)
-In Feb 1999, 41st meeting, A
functional specification outlining the
theory, structure and practical
application of ETIS was produced.
-In April 1999, ETIS software
programme for the seizure database was
designed.
-In Jan 2002, the first series of ETIS
Country Reports were produced and
circulated to 135 Parties.
-In April 2002, TRAFFIC developed an
‘ETIS Action Toolkit’ to foster
awareness and build capacity for the
implementation of ETIS.

19. -The results of the ETIS studies were presented at the fifth dialogue meeting of the
African elephant range States and to the CITES Parties which mandated an
assessment of internal ivory trade controls in 10 key ivory markets: Cameroon,
China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Japan, Nigeria,
Thailand, Uganda and the United States of America.

20. Oriented Development
-Support for CITES to raise law
enforcement to counter illegal
trading elephant product through the
provision of enforcement intelligence
reports:
-Map
-Early warning system

21. CITES National Ivory Action Plan
Truong Thi Nhung

22. STATISTICS
In a single decade between 1979 and 1989, half of all Africa’s elephants were lost to the ivory trade
Between 2002 and 2011 Maisels et al (2013) estimate that the world’s forest elephant population was
reduced by: 62%
the number of elephants killed for their ivory between 2010 and 2012 was 100000
In the four years up to 2014 the wholesale price of raw ivory in China tripled, reaching a per kilo dollar
price of 2100

23. CITES National Ivory Action Plan
- Used by the Convention in a number of its member States, to strengthen
their- controls of the trade in ivory and ivory markets, and help combat the
illegal trade in ivory.
- Each plan outlines the urgent measures that a CITES Party commits to
deliver – including legislative, enforcement and public awareness actions as
required – along with specified time frames and milestones for
implementation.
- A plan should identify the actions that are of highest priority for a particular
Party to help combat the illegal ivory trade, depending upon the Party's own
circumstances

24. National Action Ivory Plan
in some couuntries

25. Massive downturn in Bangkok ivory market as
Thailand implement national action plan
ThaiLand passed the
Elephants Ivory Act to
regulate domestic ivory
market and approved
new regulations
criminalizing the sale of
African Elephants Ivory
7,421 ivory items in 2014
283 products by June in 2016
96%

26. China to ban domestic ivory trade by end of
2017 in huge boost for Africa’s elephants
- Cease part of ivory processing and sales by
- Cease all ivory processing and sales by
31 March 2017
31stDecember 2017