Status and Conservation
None of the African species of hornbills are seriously threatened, but many Asian hornbills are threatened due to hunting and habitat loss, as they tend to require primary forest. Among these threatened species, only the Plain-pouched Hornbill and Rufous-necked Hornbill are found in the Asian mainland; all others are insular in their distribution. In the Philippines alone, one species (Palawan Hornbill) is vulnerable and two species (Mindoro and Visayan Tarictic Hornbills) are endangered. The only critically endangered hornbills, the Rufous-headed Hornbill and Sulu Hornbill, are also restricted to the Philippines. The latter species being among the worlds rarest birds with only 20 breeding pairs or 40 mature individuals and thus its facing imminent extinction. The Ticao Tarictic Hornbill, a subspecies of the Visayan Tarictic Hornbill, is probably already extinct.
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