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Namibian Wildlife Surveys archive
This archive of reports of wildlife surveys in Namibia aims to:
- provide easy public access to published information and statistics
- enable easy stakeholder access to recent and historical data on wildlife populations
- provide a comprehensive archive of wildlife survey reports in Namibia
Public access to information is a vital component of ensuring community engagement in prevalent issues. Wildlife surveys are critical to determine the health of wildlife populations and determine trends over time to guide conservation and management actions.
Wildlife surveys are done for different species using methods that are suited to counting them (e.g. by air or road) in their natural habitats. Such surveys need to be repeated over time to detect long-term trends and inform conservation managers. The Namibian government, non-governmental organisations and private reserves all conduct regular surveys covering different parts of Namibia and targeting different species. This archive will thus serve as a repository of our collective knowledge of the trends and status of a variety of species occurring throughout Namibia.
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Game counts in Bwabwata and Caprivi; dry season, live sightings. showing Numbers seen by conservation area, habitat, compared to 2009, population estimates and trends.
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| Caprivi game count poster 2010.doc | 380 KB |
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| Lion population census in Etosha National Park_2010.pdf | 154.42 KB |
Game counts in north-west Namibia, June 2010.
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| NW_game_count_poster_2010.pdf | 2.27 MB |
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| Gondwana Canon Park game count 2010.pdf | 763.08 KB |
Poster summarising the results of the 2010 game count in the South.
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| South game count poster 2010.pdf | 585.11 KB |
The survey took two hours 54 minutes, which translates into a search rate of 1.6 km/min. The flight path was recorded on the GPS tracklog and is shown in Figure 2 (deviations from the transects are where rhino, elephant or large herds of animals were encountered). A total of 253 sightings were recorded during this time (Figure 3) which comprised 1539 animals of seventeen species (Table 1). Kaross game camp is 144 km² in size so the density of animals calculates to 10.7 animals/km². The distribution and herd size for selected species is shown in Figure 4 to Figure 11.
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| Kaross_Aerial census 2009.pdf | 2.53 MB |
Maps showing live sightings of elephant, giraffe, kudu, roan, sable, buffalo, impala, reedbuck, tsessebe and zebra in the 2010 Caprivi game count.
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| Caprivi game count map of live sightings 2010.pdf | 423.25 KB |
North West game count - map of sightings per species per 2x2km grid cell.
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| Map_Sightings by species NW 2010.pdf | 1.97 MB |
March 1979 aerial census in the Etosha National Park.
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| Etosha NP_Aerial census 1979 03.PDF | 676.62 KB |
Altogether 240 563 tourists visited the Administration's game reserves and resorts during 1979, in comparison to 319 785 during 1978, which was a record year. The decrease of 79 222 visitors (24, 7%) can be attributed to the political and fuel situation. These factors especially affected visitors from the R. S. Ambers decreased from 112 110 in 1978 to 55 479 in 1979, which represents a decrease of 51%. There was a decrease of 12% in visitors from S. W. A. and 6% in visitors from overseas.
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| SWA Administration_1979.pdf | 2.02 MB |