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 |