Elephant census under way in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Angola
Lenin Ndebele, News24
September 6, 2022
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The elephant census is under way in the Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier
Conservation Area (KAZA), after it started in Zambia's Kafue National Park.
The survey will also cover Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Angola as
conservationists attempt to count the elephant population.
In Zimbabwe, the census started in the last week of August and was expected
to last three weeks before moving to Botswana.
KAZA said in a statement:
Plans indicate an anticipated three weeks to complete the northwest
Matabeleland area in Zimbabwe before crossing over to Botswana, where
flying is expected to start mid-October 2022.
As things stand, aggregated figures from the five KAZA members are that
there are 220,000 elephants in the region in an area of 520,000km².
This figure represents about half of the remaining savanna elephants
(Loxodonta Africana) found in Africa – a species that was red-listed as
endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The survey will also seek to understand the elephants' migration patterns
across countries and factors such as climate change in the survival of the
jumbos.
"The survey aims to determine the numbers and seasonal distributions of
elephants, elephant carcasses, and other large herbivores," the
organisation added.
KAZA's executive director, Nyambe Nyambe, said the survey was important
because there will be an actual science-based blueprint for future
conservation plans for the first time.
The survey is funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Paul G Allen Family
Foundation, German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development
through KfW, and the Dutch Postcode Lottery through the Dreamfund Project.
Other partners in the project are USAID's Combating Wildlife Crime in
Namibia, the Kavango-Zambezi Area Project, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and
Development Office, the Environment and Protected Areas Authority (EPAA) of
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Elephant census under way in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Angola
Lenin Ndebele, News24
September 6, 2022
See link
<https://www.news24.com/news24/africa/news/elephant-census-under-way-in-zimbabwe-zambia-botswana-namibia-and-angola-20220906>
for photo & audio of article.
The elephant census is under way in the Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier
Conservation Area (KAZA), after it started in Zambia's Kafue National Park.
The survey will also cover Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Angola as
conservationists attempt to count the elephant population.
In Zimbabwe, the census started in the last week of August and was expected
to last three weeks before moving to Botswana.
KAZA said in a statement:
Plans indicate an anticipated three weeks to complete the northwest
Matabeleland area in Zimbabwe before crossing over to Botswana, where
flying is expected to start mid-October 2022.
As things stand, aggregated figures from the five KAZA members are that
there are 220,000 elephants in the region in an area of 520,000km².
This figure represents about half of the remaining savanna elephants
(Loxodonta Africana) found in Africa – a species that was red-listed as
endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The survey will also seek to understand the elephants' migration patterns
across countries and factors such as climate change in the survival of the
jumbos.
"The survey aims to determine the numbers and seasonal distributions of
elephants, elephant carcasses, and other large herbivores," the
organisation added.
KAZA's executive director, Nyambe Nyambe, said the survey was important
because there will be an actual science-based blueprint for future
conservation plans for the first time.
The survey is funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Paul G Allen Family
Foundation, German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development
through KfW, and the Dutch Postcode Lottery through the Dreamfund Project.
Other partners in the project are USAID's Combating Wildlife Crime in
Namibia, the Kavango-Zambezi Area Project, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and
Development Office, the Environment and Protected Areas Authority (EPAA) of
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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