First elephant census will be conducted in Kavango Zambezi
News Ghana
August 8, 2022
The Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) will
conduct the first-ever coordinated elephant aerial survey from August to
October.
Malebogo Somolokae, chief wildlife officer of Botswana’s Department of
Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) told Xinhua on Sunday that the
statistics will help the southern African country gain an improved
understanding of elephant numbers and distributions, and use the data
alongside the “Problem Animal” datasets to identify conflict areas, with
appropriate human-elephant conflict interventions to be put in place in the
most affected regions.
She said that the exercise will provide Botswana with the most recent
estimates of the elephant population, which will help them decide whether
to increase or decrease elephant hunting in different controlled hunting
areas across the country.
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