African Elephant in Makgadikgadi Pans National Park

Loxodonta africana

Chance of an encounter
Possible

Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, aggregated onto a 10 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.

Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.

The evidence here

Grid cells
13
Records
1
Cell size
10 km
Years covered
2004 to 2026

A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 13 squares of 10 km carry records for African Elephant in and around Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, and the 1 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.

About the African Elephant

The desert elephants of the Kunene are not a separate species, and that is the remarkable part. They are ordinary African elephants that have learned to live where less rain falls in a year than on London in a single April.

The full field guide entry, and everywhere else it is recorded

Before you go

Never block a movement corridor between water and cover.