# The wattled crane, the largest, rarest and most threatened of Africa’s six crane species, has been downlisted from critically endangered to endangered. Wattled cranes, a winter-breeding, wetland-dependent species, were listed as regionally critically endangered in 2015, with only 267 individuals recorded in the KwaZulu-Natal aerial survey of that year. African Crane Conservation Programme’s Damian Walters says the downlisting highlights the importance of collaborating when protecting a species and their grasslands and wetlands habitats that everyone depends on.
Wattled crane downlisted from critically endangered to endangered