Inaugural KAZA Summit gathers steam

KAZA aerial survey coordinator, Darren Potgieter, headlined a panel discussion on technical issues within the region, focussing on the implication for policy and management.

The KAZA region, a 520,000-square kilometre wetland paradise straddling Botswana, Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, last year finalised its first combined elephant census which found that the pachyderms’ populations in the area are stable. The census put the combined population at nearly 230,000, the world’s largest continuous population of elephants by far.