Elephant numbers in Boumba-Bek, Cameroon

Abstract

Only a summary of the presentation and the discussion following it was published. In 1993 a grant provided for a survey of the Boumba-Bek Reserve in south east Cameroon. The elephant population estimated from two dung counts yielded very different numbers, the first estimated 7000- +/-3000 while the second gave only 250+/-100. Obviously a large number of the population are migratory, it is thought they go south to the Nki area which also has in part been made into Reserve, and the plan is to fit some with radio collars to track them and find out the corridors which they use. The human population in the area is very low so conflict as yet is not a problem.