Editing Springbok (section)

== Threats and conservation ==
The springbok has been classified as [[least concern]] on the [[IUCN Red List]]. No major threats to the long-term survival of the species are known.<ref name=iucn/> The springbok is one of the few antelope species with a positive population trend.<ref name=east>{{cite book|last1=East|first1=R.|last2=IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group|title=African Antelope Database 1998|date=1999|publisher=The IUCN Species Survival Commission|location=Gland, Switzerland|isbn=978-2-8317-0477-7|pages=263–264}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Doyle| first=A. |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE52300U20090304?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews |title=Quarter of antelopes under threat: report |work=[[Reuters]] |date=3 March 2009 |access-date=25 April 2012}}</ref>

Springbok occur in several protected areas across their range: [[Makgadikgadi and Nxai National Park]] (Botswana); [[Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park]] between Botswana and South Africa; Etosha National Park and [[Namib-Naukluft Park]] (Namibia); [[Mokala National Park|Mokala]] and [[Karoo National Park|Karoo]] National Parks and a number of provincial reserves in South Africa.<ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn|author=IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group|year=2008|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/1676/0|title=''Antidorcas marsupialis''|access-date=7 January 2015}}</ref> In 1999, Rod East of the IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group estimated the springbok population in South Africa at more than 670,000, noting that it might be an underestimate. However, estimates for Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Transvaal, Karoo, and the Free State (which gave a total population estimate of nearly 2,000,000 – 2,500,000 animals in southern Africa), were in complete disagreement with East's estimate. Springbok are under active management in several private lands. Small populations have been introduced into private lands and provincial areas of [[KwaZulu-Natal]].<ref name =iucn/><ref name =east/>