Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants

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1. Story
2. Between August and October 2022, seven aircraft flew a coordinated dry-season survey across the five KAZA states, producing an estimate of roughly 227,900 elephants, with Botswana holding the largest national share at about 131,909. The result was reported as broadly stable against the 2016 IUCN African Elephant Status Report. Stability at KAZA scale coexists with local overabundance and severe conflict at settlement edges — the headline number is not by itself a conservation verdict.
3. Knowledge
4. Okavango Delta
5. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
6. African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
7. Hwange National Park
8. Chobe National Park
9. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
10. Connections
11. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
12. African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
13. Chobe National Park
14. Hwange National Park
15. Okavango Delta
16. Okavango Delta
17. African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
18. Hwange National Park
19. Chobe National Park
20. Zambezi River
21. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
22. Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
23. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
24. Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridor
25. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
26. CITES — Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
27. CITES CoP7 moves all African elephant populations to Appendix I
28. Great Elephant Census reports 352,271 savanna elephants and a 30% decline
29. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
30. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
31. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
32. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
33. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
34. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
35. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
36. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
37. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
38. Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
39. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
40. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
41. Evidence
42. KAZA was established by treaty between Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe in 2011, linking national parks, game management areas, forest reserves and community land across the Okavango and Zambezi basins; a coordinated dry-season aerial survey flown August-October 2022 estimated about 227,900 elephants in the TFCA, with Botswana holding about 131,909, described as broadly stable relative to the 2016 IUCN African Elephant Status Report.