Cross River, Okomu National Parks added to CITES elephant monitoring network

 

(Posted 18th September 2026(

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

Abdulkareem Mojeed, Premium Times (Nigeria), September 18, 2026
Cross River National Park and Okomu National Park in Nigeria have been added to the Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) Programme of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). In a statement published on its website , CITES said the designation brings the number of MIKE sites across Africa to 74. The organisation said the network has expanded significantly from its original 39 sites in 2001.
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