|Scientific Name:||Tragelaphus imberbis| |Species
Authority:||(Blyth, 1869)| |Red List Category & Criteria:||Near
Threatened ver 3.1| |Assessor/s:||IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist
Group| |Reviewer/s:||Mallon, D.P. (Antelope Red List Authority)
& Hoffmann, M. (Global Mammal Assessment)| Total numbers are
estimated to number at least 118,000, about 33% of them in
protected areas. Numbers are considered to be in decline in much
of the range, as a result of hunting, overgrazing, and outbreaks
of rinderpest. In some other areas, bush encroachment has
increased the amount of suitable habitat, and local range
expansion and population increases have been reported.
Nevertheless, the level of decline is estimated to have reached
at least 20% over a period of three generations (21-24 years),
so approaching the threshold for Vulnerable under criterion
A2cde. The Lesser Kudu will probably persist in the arid
scrublands of northeastern Africa, as long as human and
livestock densities remain relatively low in extensive parts o