Correct Answer - Option 2 : Elephant
The correct answer is Elephant.
Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE)
- The overall goal of MIKE is to provide the 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.
- More specific objectives within this goal are:
- To measure levels and trends in the illegal hunting of elephants;
- To determine changes in these trends over time; and
- 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.
- Project Elephant (PE) was launched by the Government of India in the year 1992 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with the following objectives :
- To protect elephants, their habitat & corridors
- To address issues of man-animal conflict
- The welfare of captive elephants
