Conservation Status: Near Threatened; Southern African Range: Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique; Area of Occupancy: 721,000 km2; Population Estimate: Approximately 5,000 to 10,000 individuals; Population Trend: Uncertain, probably declining; Habitat: Open grassland with scattered trees, absent from closed-canopy woodland and largely excluded from bush-encroached thorn savannah; Threats: Collisions with overhead lines, habitat loss and fragmentation, poison, illegal hunting, predation.