Gyps coprotheres is steadily declining in the face of a multitude of threats including accidental poisoning, organochlorine contamination, electrocution, disturbance at colonies, food-stress during chick- rearing, and persecution.
Gyps coprotheres is found in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and is thought to be extinct in Zimbabwe.
A world population of Gyps coprotheres was estimated in 1983 at 10,000 birds (possibly as many as 12,000 at the start of the 1990s owing to more complete data).
Gyps coprotheres is considered as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN.