Elephant locations in Botswana

13 locations has kept elephants in Botswana

There is presently 17 (5,12) living elephants in locations in Botswana in this database

Botswana
Region:	Botswana is in this database included in africa
Wild elephants:	Botswana has about apr 135 000wild elephants. Source:Elephants Without Borders
Location holdings:	13 locations has kept 33 elephants in Botswana (Database tables with collection of elephants further down on the page)
Elephants in locations	17 (5,12) living 16 (10,4) dead

Botswana is home to almost a third of Africa’s elephants, around 130,000.

2000: The Botswana elephant population estimates stand at 106 494 with a range of 84 898 to 128 090. The African elephant as a species account for about 30% of the total herbivore biomass of Botswana. The population continue to grow at a rate of approximately 5% per year
CITES COP 11

2019-10-23: More than 100 elephants die in Botswana in suspected anthrax outbreak.

2020: Botswanas 135,000 elephants mostly live in a 520,000 square kilometer (201,000 square-mile) area known as the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, which spans five countries and is home to almost half of the worlds African elephants.

2022-04-14: 500 elephants are to be translocated from Botswana to Mozambique.

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan, Facts about elephants in Botswana. Elephant Encyclopedia, (2024) available online retrieved 2024-10-16 at https://www.elephant.se/country.php?name=Botswana.
(archived at the Wayback machine)

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Internal relevant links

The elephant database startpage. Statistics
News about elephants in Botswana (From the sister site Elephant News)

Name	Elephant collection				Place
Abu Camp (camp) Kept totally 22 elephants	, 8 present (1,7)	8 births	9 relocated	5 deaths	Maun (map) The Okavango Delta
Botswana unspecified location (wild) Kept totally 0 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	1 births	0 relocated	0 deaths
Chobe National Park (wild) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	1 deaths
Corea Elephant Orphanage (orphanage) Kept totally 4 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	4 relocated	0 deaths
Kasane elephant orphanage (EWB) (orphanage) Kept totally 0 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Kasane (map)Chobe District
Living With Elephants (private) Kept totally 3 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	3 deaths	Maun
Makgadikgadi National Park (wild) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 1 present (1,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Makgadikgadi Pans (map)
Mashatu Game Reserve (wild) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	1 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	(map)
Okavango Delta (wild) Kept totally 10 elephants	, 7 present (3,4)	1 births	1 relocated	2 deaths	(map)
Randall Moore (private) Kept totally 14 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	11 relocated	3 deaths	(map)
Serendib Elephant Project (camp) Kept totally 5 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	1 births	3 relocated	2 deaths	Mokolodi Nature Reserve
Tuli Block (wild) Kept totally 27 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	27 births	27 relocated	0 deaths	(map)
Vumbura Concession (wild) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 1 present (0,1)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Okavango Delta (map)

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