Data Category | Definite | Probable | Possible | Speculative |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aerial or Ground Sample Counts | 62,998 | 8,588 | 8,588 | 0 |
Informed Guesses, Undocumented Aerial or Dung Surveys and GIS Extrapolations | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 62,998 | 8,588 | 8,588 | 0 |
No changes between current and previous report.
Survey Details2 | Number of Elephants | Area | Map Location | |||||||
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Input Zone | Type | Reliab. | Year | Estimate | 95% C.L. | Source | PFS3 | (km²) | Lon. | Lat. |
Northern Botswana | AS1 | B | 9394 | 70,755 | 8,576 | ULG, 1993, 1994a,b | 1 | 159,013 | 23.6E | 19.6S |
Rest of Botswana | AS3 | D | 1994 | 0 | ULG, 1994a,b | 1 | 419,019 | 23.9E | 23.2S | |
Tuli Game Reserve | AS1 | B | 1994 | 831 | 456 | ULG, 1994a,b | 2 | 927 | 29.1E | 22.2S |
* 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.