Ten decades back, says Mike Chase, the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Space was 1 fluid contiguous elephant habitat. “An elephant could be in Botswana in the morning, midday in Zimbabwe and in the night cross about into Zambia or Namibia,” Chase, founder of the conservation NGO Elephants With out Borders, tells Mongabay. “It seems that that vision of an interconnected landscape is now becoming compromised.” The 520,000-sq.-kilometer (201,000-sq.-mile) place identified as the KAZA stretches throughout Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It was established in 2006 with a vision of the region’s megafauna roaming free of charge, unencumbered by the constraints of political borders. Much more than 50 percent the world’s savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) stay in this transfrontier region. Chase’s EWB, dependent in Botswana, has just revealed an investigation comparing the two major-at any time aerial elephant surveys at any time accomplished: the Good Elephant Census, a pan-African study led by Chase spanning 18 countries and conducted in 2014 and 2015 and the 2022 KAZA Elephant Study commissioned by the KAZA Secretariat, covering the 5 international locations of the transfrontier conservation space with further facts from a 2018 EWB survey in Botswana. Elephants in the Okavango Delta. Picture by Michael Levine-Clark by means of Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.) Aerial shot of a river in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Region. Picture by Mark W Atkinson/WCS by way of Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.) “It is crucial to have up-to-day information on the size and status of elephant populations to have an understanding of the status of the species,” states George Wittemyer, a professor at Colorado Condition University…This report was initially posted on Mongabay