Central African Republic, 1998

All Years for Central African Republic: 2016 — 2013 — 2007 — 2002 — 1998 — 1995

1998 Summary Totals for Central African Republic

Data Category	Definite	Probable	Possible	Speculative
Dung Counts	0	1,600	1,120	0
Informed Guesses	2,515	0	5,485	8,000
Total	2,515	1,600	6,605	8,000

No changes between current and previous report.

Central African Republic : Elephant Estimates

	Survey Details²			Number of Elephants				Area	Map Location
Input Zone	Type	Reliab.	Year	Estimate	95% C.L.	Source	PFS³	(km²)	Lon.	Lat.
Bangassou Forest Reserve	DC3	C	1996	1,600	1,120	Kpanou et al. (in prep.)	2	16,600	23.3E	5.2N
Dzanga-Sangha and Dzanga-Ndoki	IG3	D	1998	3,000	3000*	Turkalo, Quest. Reply, 1998	2	4,743	16.2E	2.9N
Northern Savanna	IG3	D	1998	5,000	5000*	Tello, pers. comm., 1998	2	38,240	19.7E	8.1N

* 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.