News Story Elephant 2024. Seven aircraft surveyed over 40,000 miles of southern africa’s kavango zambezi transfrontier conservation area (kaza tfca) to estimate the number and distribution of. Almost exactly a year after a massive outbreak of h5n1 highly pathogenic avian influenza killed more than 17,000 elephant seals, including about 97% of their pups, scientists.

The study offers a map showing landscape connections that would support elephants’ habitat needs and allow for more gene flow among populations. The elephant mortalities in botswana have been attributed to cyanobacterial neurotoxins, but further details have not been published, the study noted.