Estimates were calculated using DISTANCE. Most transects were foot counts, although some vehicle transects were also counted (5 in Mahango and 3 each in Buffalo and Kwando). While foot transects conform to an evenly spaced regular grid system, vehicle transects follow park roads and are prone to sampling and habitat bias due to the oversampling of boundary tracks and river sections. Consequently, the estimates presented below were derived from analyses restricted to foot transects only. Where the number of observations was low (< 40) one or more data years immediately prior to the count were used to boost the sample for the generation of detection profiles. The bottom row of the table i.e. hyphenated numbers = 95% Confidence Intervals for each 2024 count year estimate.