Elephant locations in Botswana

12 locations has kept elephants in Botswana
There is presently 19 (6,13) living elephants in locations in Botswana (in this database)

Region:

Botswana is in this database included in africa

Other regions

Wild elephants:

Botswana has about apr 135 000wild elephants. Source:Elephants Without Borders

Location holdings:

12 locations has kept 32 elephants in Botswana

(Database tables with collection of elephants further down on the page)

Elephants in locations

19 (6,13) living

13 (8,3) dead

Sex ratio and
Management:

Male

6 / 19

32%

Female

13 / 19

68%

Free contact

12 / 19

63%

Protected contact

0 / 19

No contact

0 / 19

Unknown contact

0 / 19

wild

7 / 19

37%

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.

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

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan, Facts about elephants in Botswana. Elephant Encyclopedia, (2021) available online retrieved at https://www.elephant.se/country.php?name=Botswana.
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