RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A SURVEY DESIGN FOR THE CITES ELEPHANT MONITORING PROGRAM “MIKE”

Annexes

1. Central African Study Area, MIKE Sites and Pilot Project Sites
2. MIKE Survey Sites provided to the Pilot Project (April 1999) and treated as intensive sites in the proposed survey design.
   1. Lope
   2. Odzala
   3. Ituri
3. Sampling plans and sampled locations in
   1. Study area
   2. Stratification process
   3. Results of stratification
   4. Allocation of sampling points
4. Cartographic inputs/outputs for sampling effort allocation
5. Formulae for calculating optimal allocation of survey effort among strata.
6. Access map for the Central African forest zone
7. List of technical consultants reports

ANNEX 2: MIKE Survey Sites provided to the Pilot Project (April 1999) and treated as intensive sites in the proposed survey design.

 

Country	Survey Site	Area	Biome	Protected Status
DR Congo	Garamba	15,125	savanna/woodlands	National Park/Hunting Reserve complex
	Ituri Forest	+/- 30,000	closed forest	Wildlife Reserve
	Kahuzi-Biega	6,000	closed forest	National Park
Congo	Odzala	+/- 13,000	closed forest	National Park
	Conkuati	3,000	closed forest	Reserve de Faune
CAR	Dzanga-Sangha	3,292	closed forest	National Park
	Sangba	+/- 15,000	savanna/woodlands	National Park/ Hunting Reserve complex
	Bangassou	5000	Forest / savanna	Forest Reserve
Cameroon	Boumba-Bek	1,322	closed forest	Reserve de Faune
	Waza	1,700	savanna/woodlands	National Park
Chad	Zakouma	3,156	savanna/woodlands	National Park
Gabon	Minkebe	6,000	closed forest	Reserve de Faune
	Lope	5,400	closed forest	Reserve de Faune

NOTE; Subsequent to the intial list the following modifications have been made or porposed:. Salonga National Park (33,000 km2) is recommended as an additional site in DRC, Nouabale Ndoki (3,866 km²) is suggested as an additional site in Congo. A site in Guinea Equatorial to be designated

ANNEX 3: sampling plan and sampled locations for the Pilot Project Sites.

 

• Figure 1: Sampling plan for the Lope area, Gabon.
• Figure 2: Sampling plan and sampled locations for the Odzala area, Congo
• Figure 3: Sampling plan and sampled locations for the Ituri area, Democratic Republic of Congo

ANNEX 4: cartographic inputs and outputs for sampling effort allocation for the extensive sampling design in the Central African Rainforest study area.

 

• Figure 1. Elephant range in Central Africa
• Figure 2. Stratification process: buffers and expert opinion
• Figure 3. Elephant density strata
• Figure 4. Sampling locations