Hamadryas Baboon (Papio hamadryas) Fact Sheet: Population & Conservation Status

• No total population estimate
• Populations stable or increasing (Gippoliti and Ehardt 2008)
• Considered abundant (Gippoliti and Ehardt 2008)
  • Majority of individuals in Ethiopia

IUCN Status

• Least Concern (2016 assessment) (Gippoliti 2019)
• Past assessments
  • 2016: Least Concern
  • 1996: Lower Risk/near thrreatened
  • 1990: Rare
  • 1988: Rare
  • 1988: Rare

CITES Status

• Appendix II (UNEP 2020)

No major range-wide threats

Localized threats (Gippoliti and Ehardt 2008)

• Expansion of agriculture
• Males are hunted for their skins

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Gippoliti and Ehardt (2008)