The Houbara Bustard is observed in North Africa west of the Nile, especially within the western part of the Sahara wilderness place in Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Some old facts exist from Sudan as well. A small populace is determined inside the Canary Islands. The Asian houbara or MacQueen's bustard which changed into in advance blanketed in this species happens east of the Sinai Peninsula. The North African species is sedentary no longer like the migratory northern populations of MacQueen's bustards.

The International Fund for Houbara Conservation UAE is the worldwide leader in Houbara bustard conservation. A global conservation approach become developed and applied over the past forty years with the aim of ensuring the species has a sustainable destiny inside the wild via powerful and appropriate conservation programmes and control plans.The IHFC modified into created in 2006 to further the authentic programme through coping with worldwide property and securing partnerships throughout the variety of the houbara, which encourage sustainable practices to make sure the species’ conservation.

The Houbara conservation programme is supported via manner of the authorities of Abu Dhabi. A multi-faceted Houbara conservation approach has established breeding facilities in the UAE (The National Avian Research Center and The Sheik Khalifa Houbara Breeding Center), Morocco (Emirates Center for Wildlife Propagation) and Kazakhstan (The Sheik Khalifa Houbara Breeding Center) to captive-breed Houbara and increase wild populations of the hen in its natural habitat for the duration of whole species range. In 2019, the International Fund for Houbara Bustard 484,351 Houbara and launched greater than 343,428 Houbara into the wild.

The International Foundation for Conservation and Development of Wildlife (IFCDW) is a chief conservation and breeding assignment set up with price range from Prince Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud and based totally near Agadir, Morocco. The centre releases captive bred populations to reinforce wild population.