Conservation
Owing to large scale clearing of the bird’s specialised habitat for agriculture, along with its exceedingly slow reproductive rate, the Southern Ground Hornbill is classed as Vulnerable to extinction; however, in South Africa, where most studies on the species have been carried out, it is listed as Critically Endangered.
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