Gabon, 1998

All Years for Gabon: 2016 — 2013 — 2007 — 2002 — 1998 — 1995

1998 Summary Totals for Gabon

Data Category	Possible	Speculative
Informed Guesses	7,500	1,000
Other Guesses	0	53,294
Total	7,500	54,294

No changes between current and previous report.

Gabon : Elephant Estimates

	Survey Details²			Number of Elephants				Area	Map Location
Input Zone	Type	Reliab.	Year	Estimate	95% C.L.	Source	PFS³	(km²)	Lon.	Lat.
Gamba	IG3	D	1998	3,000	1000*	Walsh, pers. comm., 1998	2	10,485	10.1E	2.4S
Lopé Faunal Reserve	IG3	D	1998	4,500		White, pers. comm., 1998	2	5,000	11.6E	0.5S
Rest of Forest Elephant Range	DC2	E	1988	53,294	20,218	Barnes et al., 1995	1	222,627	11.9E	0.6S

* 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.