Elephant Database
African Elephant Specialist Group

Namibia, 2002

All Years for Namibia: 201620132007200219981995

2002 Summary Totals for Namibia

Data Category Definite Probable Possible Speculative
Aerial or Ground Total Counts19000
Direct Sample Counts and Reliable Dung Counts7,7501,8721,8720
Total7,7691,8721,8720

No changes between current and previous report.

Namibia : Elephant Estimates

Survey Details2 Number of Elephants Area Map Location
Input ZoneTypeReliab.YearEstimate95% C.L. SourcePFS3 (km²) Lon. Lat.
Caprivi RegionAS2B19984,576 1,223Ministry of the Environment and Tourism Namibia, 1998118,259 23.3E 17.9S
Etosha National ParkAS1B20022,417 663Kilian, 2003118,464 15.9E 19.0S
Kavango RegionAT3A199519Lindeque et al., 19953762 18.5E 18.4S
Khaudom/Nyae-NyaeAS2B20001,966 973Craig pers. comm., 2003a212,107 20.5E 19.2S
KuneneAS3B2000663 790Craig pers. comm., 2003a186,451 13.5E 19.0S

* 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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