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Status and conservation

The wild common ostrich population has declined drastically in the last 200 years, with most surviving birds in reserves or on farms. However, its range remains very large (9,800,000 km or 3,800,000 sq mi), leading the IUCN and BirdLife International to treat it as a species of least concern. Of its five subspecies, the Arabian ostrich (S. c. syriacus) became extinct around 1966. North African ostrich populations are protected under Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meaning commercial international trade is prohibited and non-commercial trade is strictly regulated.