A new report by Elephants Without Borders (EWB), summarising aerial survey results from over a decade across Southern Africa, found that overall, elephant numbers have not changed significantly. The report added that while the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) aerial survey counted 227 900 elephants, it lacked any formal trend analysis. The transboundary aerial survey of KAZA elephants was flown from August to October 2022. KAZA includes Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, which share international borders along the Okavango and Zambezi River basins. No significant changes The report notes that Namibia has about 21 090 elephants, Botswana is home to 131 909 elephants, 65 025 elephants were counted in Zimbabwe, 5 983 in Angola and 3 840 in Zambia. According to EWB, for their report, they used data from aerial surveys from 2010 to 2022 to update the conservation status of elephants in KAZA, which is a 520 000 km2 network of protected areas in the above-mentioned five countries.