ELEPHANTS & IVORY

APPENDIX 2 | NUMBERS OF AFRICAN ELEPHANTS AND
ELEPHANT NUMBERS RANGE % OF % OF
2 CONTINENTAL
DEFINITE PROBABLE POSSIBLE SPECULATIVE TOTAL AREA, KM
RANGE
WEST AFRICA
Benin 1,223 0 0 0 1,223 13,673 0.39 51
Burkina Faso 4,154 320 520 0 4 994 19,872 0.57 72
Cote d’Ivoire 188 152 119 506 965 33,985 0.97 72
Ghana 789 387 241 12 1,429 23,301 0.66 42
Guinea 135 79 79 57 350 1,524 0.04 78
Guinea Bissau 0 0 7 13 20 1,346 0.04 100
Liberia 0 0 0 1,676 1,676 15,977 0.46 80
Mali 357 0 141 156 654 31,878 0.91 100
Niger 85 0 17 0 102 2,683 0.08 100
Nigeria 348 0 105 375 828 22,968 0.65 37
Senegal 1 0 0 9 10 1,090 0.03 100
Sierra Leone 0 0 80 135 215 1,804 0.05 59
Togo 4 0 61 0 65 5,444 0.16 69
Subtotal 7,487 735 1,129 2,939 12,290 175,545 5.00 66
CENTRAL AFRICA
Cameroon 179 726 4,965 9,517 15,387 118,571 3.55 45
CAR 109 1,689 1,036 500 3,334 73,453 2.20 95
Chad 3,885 0 2,000 550 6,435 149,443 4.48 26
Congo 402 16,947 4,024 729 22,102 135,918 4.07 23
DRC 2,447 7,955 8,855 4,457 23,714 263,700 7.91 40
Equatorial Guinea 0 0 700 630 1,330 15,008 0.45 13
Gabon 1,523 23,457 27,911 17,746 70,637 218,985 6.56 94
Subtotal 10,383 48,936 43,098 34,129 136,546 975,079 29.00 52
1. Because of the statistical manipulations used to compile this table, the sub-totals and totals do not necessarily match the simple sum of
entries within any given category.
Source: Blanc, J.J., R.F.W. Barnes, G.C. Craig, H.T. Dublin, C.R. Thouless, I. Douglas-Hamilton, and J.A. Hart. 2007.
African Elephant Status Report 2007: An Update from the African Elephant Database.
Available at http://www.african-elephant.org/aed/aesr2007.html. These numbers were reprinted in 2011 in Status of elephant populations,
levels of illegal killing and the trade in ivory: A Report to the Standing Committee of CITES.
SC61 Doc. 44.2 (Rev. 1) Annex 1, p. 7. Available at http://www.cites.org/eng/com/sc/61/E61-44-02-A1.pdf.
RANGE BY COUNTRY AND REGION 1
RANGE
ASSESSED
ELEPHANT NUMBERS RANGE % OF % OF
DEFINITE PROBABLE POSSIBLE SPECULATIVE TOTAL AREA, KM 2 CONTINENTAL
RANGE
EASTERN AFRICA
Eritrea 96 0 8 0 104 5,293 0.16 100
Ethiopia 634 0 920 206 1,760 38,365 1.15 68
Kenya 23,353 1,316 4,946 2,021 31,636 107,113 3.21 82
Rwanda 34 0 37 46 117 1,014 0.03 100
Somalia 0 0 0 70 70 4,526 0.14 68
South Sudan 20 0 280 0 300 318,239 9.54 0
Tanzania 108,816 27,937 29,350 900 167,003 390,336 11.70 66
Uganda 2,337 1,985 1,937 300 6,559 15,148 0.45 74
Subtotal 137,485 29,043 35,124 3,543 205,195 880,063 26.00 45
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Angola 818 801 851 80 2,550 406,946 12.20 5
Botswana 133,829 20,829 20,629 0 175,287 100,265 3.01 99
Malawi 185 323 632 1,587 2,727 7,538 0.23 89
Mozambique 14,079 2,396 2,633 6,980 26,088 334,786 10.04 77
Namibia 12,531 3,276 3,296 0 19,103 146,921 4.40 55
South Africa 17,847 0 638 22 18,507 30,455 0.91 100
Swaziland 31 0 0 0 31 50 0.00 100
Zambia 16,562 5,948 5,908 813 29,231 201,247 6.03 61
Zimbabwe 84,416 7,033 7,367 291 99,107 76,931 2.31 99
Subtotal 297,718 23,186 24,734 9,753 355,391 1,305,140 39.00 53
TOTAL 472,269 82,704 84,334 100,748 698,671 6,671,623 100 51
RANGE
ASSESSED
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