"The sobering findings of the survey further corroborate the results of the Cites MIKE [Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants] programme, which has been at the forefront of documenting alarmingly high levels of illegal killing of elephants across much of Africa over the last decade.
A system called MIKE (Monitoring of the Illegal Killing of Elephants) was set up to see what effect the limited trade in ivory would have on poaching.
The failure of CITES to set up a proposed database known as MIKE (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) leaves the matter open to debate.
A 2011 report estimated that some 17,000 elephants had been killed in regions surveyed by the CITES Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) program alone.
"They can interbreed and produce viable offspring," said Julian Blanc with the CITES Program for Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE).
The scouts work closely with MIKE (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants system) Officers who record information of elephant carcasses, allowing them to monitor the impact of the trade in ivory on local elephant populations.
The program, called Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE), has collected data on carcasses in 45 places to investigate the role of the ivory trade in elephant poaching.
"Is the C.I.A. capable of addressing an illegal killing by its own hands?" he asked.
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