A number of times, when I have been talking with people about their data, I have been told “I don’t want you to do anything complicated – I just want you to do something simple so that I can have a result, or story, that everyone can understand”. This is often said when people have […]
Monitoring the illegal killing of elephants
Monitoring the Ilegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) is one of two global monitoring programs for elephants that was initiated in 1998 by CITES (Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species). Specific objectives of MIKE are: to measure levels and trends in the illegal hunting of elephants; to determine changes in these trends over time; and […]
