Study Area

While issues of elephant conservation are important across Africa, the Southern Africa Elephant Interactions Project focuses primarily on southern Africa where populations are largest. The currently works in four protected areas of varying elephant densities in Botswana and Namibia (Chobe National Park and Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana and Bwabwata National Park and Mudumu National Park in Namibia). These parks lie at the heart of the Kavango-Zambezi Trans Frontier Conservation Area, which spans five countries with a total area of 220,000 sq km, roughly the size of Italy. The region is home to approximately 40% of Africa’s elephants, allowing the knowledge gained focusing on Botswana and Namibia to inform conservation and management of elephants and other species across a larger area.