Elephant Database
African Elephant Specialist Group

Sierra Leone, 2002

All Years for Sierra Leone: 201620132007200219981995

2002 Summary Totals for Sierra Leone

Data Category Definite Probable Possible Speculative
Informed Guesses00545
Other Guesses000160
Total005205

No changes between current and previous report.

Sierra Leone : Elephant Estimates

Survey Details2 Number of Elephants Area Map Location
Input ZoneTypeReliab.YearEstimate95% C.L. SourcePFS3 (km²) Lon. Lat.
Bagbe River ForestIG3D19955 45*Kortenhoven pers. comm., 20022349 11.1W 9.3N
Gola East Forest ReserveOG3E198760Davies (1987) in Grubb et al., 19982287 11.1W 7.4N
Gola North Forest ReserveOG3E198750Davies (1987) in Grubb et al., 19982242 10.8W 7.7N
Outamba-KilimiOG3E199450Grubb et al., 19981461 12.0W 9.8N

* Range of informed guess

1Key to Causes of Change (only tracked since 2007): DA: Different Area; DD: Data Degraded; DT: Different Technique; NA: New Analysis; NG: New Guess; NP: New population; PL: Population Lost; RS: Repeat Survey (RS ́ denotes a repeat survey that is not statistically comparable for reasons such as different season); –––: No Change

2Key to Survey Types: AC: Aerial Count, not specified; AS: Aerial Sample Count; AT: Aerial Total Count; DC: Dung Count; EX: Extrapolation from GIS; GD: Genetic Dung Count; GS: Ground Sample Count; GT: Ground Total Count; IG: Informed Guess; IR: Individual Registration; OG: Other Guess. Survey Type is followed by an indicator of survey quality, ranked from 1 to 3 (best to worst). Survey Reliability is keyed A-E (best to worst) as outlined in this table.

3PFS: Priority for Future Surveys, ranked from 1 to 5 (highest to lowest). Based on the precision of estimates and the proportion of national range accounted for by the site in question, PFS is a measure of the importance and urgency for future population surveys. All areas of unassessed range have a priority of 1. See Introduction for details on how the PFS is derived.

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