Elephant Database
African Elephant Specialist Group

Central African Republic, 2002

All Years for Central African Republic: 201620132007200219981995

2002 Summary Totals for Central African Republic

Data Category Definite Probable Possible Speculative
Other Dung Counts01,6001,1200
Informed Guesses2,97701,300390
Total2,9771,6002,420390

No changes between current and previous report.

Central African Republic : Elephant Estimates

Survey Details2 Number of Elephants Area Map Location
Input ZoneTypeReliab.YearEstimate95% C.L. SourcePFS3 (km²) Lon. Lat.
Bamingui-Mangoran Reserve ComplexIG3D2002300 100*Ruggiero pers. comm., 2003220,123 19.7E 8.1N
Bangassou Forest ReserveDC3C19961,600 1,120Kpanou et al., 1998216,600 23.3E 5.2N
Dzanga-Sangha & Dzanga-Ndoki National ParksIG3D20022,977 290*Turkalo pers. comm., 200324,743 16.2E 2.9N
Manovo-Gounda-St. Floris Reserve ComplexIG3D20021,000Ruggiero pers. comm., 2003226,086 21.6E 8.9N

* 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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