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Southern Ground-Hornbill

Wild South Africa

Kruger National Park

 

The number of Southern Ground-Hornbills outside formally protected areas in South Africa is declining due to loss and transformation of habitat, poisoning, persecution and electrocution. The species is listed as globally Vulnerable and have been uplisted to Endangered in 2014 in South Africa.

 

It is the largest hornbill species in the world.

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Uploaded on February 5, 2020
Taken on August 8, 2017