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. 2014 May 21;9(5):e94109. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094109

Table 2. Estimated wildlife populations in National Parks (data available for 61,462 km2 of the ∼64,000 km2), Game Management Areas (GMAs, data available for 159,654 km2 of the ∼167,000 km2) and game ranches (5,829 km2) in Zambia (excluding species of bushbuck size and smaller, and hippopotamuses for which count data were not available) (data taken from [19]).

Species National parks GMAs Game ranches Total
Lechwe 9,737 75,808 1,513 87,058
Impala 27,820 13,507 27,998 69,325
Wildebeest 47,815 4,069 630 52,514
Buffalo 21,301 15,938 2,107 39,346
Puku 16,838 7,529 4,904 29,271
Elephant 10,830 8,094 1,710 20,634
Sable 8,172 4,895 3,682 16,749
Zebra, plains 8,375 1,050 2,060 11,485
Waterbuck 5,254 2,333 2,987 10,574
Kudu 1,908 1,976 6,287 10,171
Hartebeest 4,429 3,952 2,051 10,432
Roan 2,384 1,632 1,647 5,663
Reedbuck 1,137 852 2,735 4,724
Eland 1,069 237 1,558 2,864
Tsessebe 990 88 410 1,488
Giraffe 579 178 321 1,078
Sitatunga 40 369 328 737
Nyala 0 0 95 95
168,678 142,507 63,023 374,208