Last available estimates indicated 220,000 elephants across the expansive KAZA landscape of some 520,000km², representing more than half of the remaining savanna elephants (Loxodonta Africana) found in Africa - a species Red Listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as endangered. The survey aims to determine the numbers and seasonal distributions of elephants, elephant carcasses, and other large herbivores in KAZA. The survey protocol has been designed to comply with the revised Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) programme’s aerial survey standards. Results of the survey will inform the development of collective policy and practice concerning the world’s largest contiguous elephant population.