Family: Bucerotidae (Hornbills)

Authority: (Temminck, 1831)

Red List Category

Criteria: A2cd+3cd+4cd

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Justification of Red List category
This species has been uplisted to Vulnerable because observations regarding threats and the disappearance of the species from many areas strongly imply that it is undergoing a rapid population decline owing to on-going and unsustainable hunting pressure, habitat loss and fragmentation.

Population size: 8000-9000 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 1,880,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - continent
Realm - Afrotropical
IUCN Ecosystem -- Terrestrial biome