AED Questionnaire - Help us update the African Elephant Database!

Do you have recent, reliable information on elephant distribution and/or abundance in any African country? If so, please help us update the African Elephant Database by completing one or more of the questionnaires below.

The questionnaire is in PDF format, and if you are familiar with Adobe Acrobat, you can complete it electronically. Otherwise print out the questionnaire and fill it in by hand, and send it to us at the address shown in the questionnaire.

You need to download at least two files, the questionnaire (PDF) and another PDF file containing maps and a table for the country for which you have information. There is a different map for each African Elephant Range State, so if you have information on more than one country, please download a map for each country and complete a separate questionnaire for each.

1. Download the questionnaire by clicking here (PDF - 151 Kb) or here (MSWord, 80 kb). The first page of questionnaire contains full instructions for its completion and submission. The questionnaire is also available in French.
2. Download the maps by selecting the country of expertise from the drop-down form below and clicking Go:
   
   Angola (PDF - 655 Kb) Benin (PDF - 446 Kb) Botswana (PDF - 511 Kb) Burkina Faso (PDF - 584 Kb) Cameroon (PDF - 676 Kb) Central African Republic (PDF - 804 Kb) Chad (PDF - 532 Kb) Congo (PDF - 576 Kb) Côte d'Ivoire (PDF - 460 Kb) Democratic Republic of Congo (PDF - 1,011 Kb) Equatorial Guinea (PDF - 343 Kb) Eritrea (PDF - 314 Kb) Ethiopia (PDF - 610 Kb) Gabon (PDF - 457 Kb) Ghana (PDF - 453 Kb) Guinea (PDF - 504 Kb) Guinea Bissau (PDF - 314 Kb) Kenya (PDF - 540 Kb) Liberia (PDF - 336 Kb) Malawi (PDF - 491 Kb) Mali (PDF - 818 Kb) Mozambique (PDF - 604 Kb) Namibia (PDF - 505 Kb) Niger (PDF - 977 Kb) Nigeria (PDF - 683 Kb) Rwanda (PDF - 297 Kb) Senegal (PDF - 407 Kb) Sierra Leone (PDF - 330 Kb) Somalia (PDF - 321 Kb) South Africa (PDF - 628 Kb) Sudan (PDF - 783 Kb) Swaziland (PDF - 241 Kb) Tanzania (PDF - 772 Kb) Togo (PDF - 397 Kb) Uganda (PDF - 503 Kb) Zambia (PDF - 863 Kb) Zimbabwe (PDF - 603 Kb)
3. You can complete the questionnaire electronically and submit it by email. Using the free Adobe Reader 7.0 or later (or Adobe Acrobat 6.0 or later) you can even make graphic corrections to the map on-screen and email us only your edits (not the entire map). Click here for brief instructions on how to do just that.
   

If you have data on individual elephant sightings, you can use our Elephant Point Record Sheet in PDF (83 Kb) or in DOC (47.3 Kb) format to record them.

Any information you provide may be featured in future African Elephant Status Reports, and your contribution will be duly acknowledged.

Thank you for helping us maintain the world's most comprehensive single-species database up-to-date!

To learn more about the African Elephant Database visit the AED home page.