by Ralph N. Murray III

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African Elephant Study

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11" x 8" Pencil on Strathmore 400 series Illustration Board Date: 2012 Northern Botswana contains the largest contiguous savannah population of elephants in Africa, where numbers have increased from an estimated >80,000 in 1995 to a current population of approximately 150,000. Indeed, numbers are reported to be increasing at an estimated growth rate of between 5-6% per annum. The elephants of northern Botswana have free range over ~80,000km2 of land 18% of which is in protected areas. In the dry season, the population concentrates near the main permanent water sources, namely the Chobe and Lynanti/Kwando River systems, and the Okavango Delta, yet during the wet season the range expands as elephants move away from the river systems to utilise the food sources near rain filled pans.

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