Global biodiversity is at a heightened risk of extinction and we are losing species faster than at any other time. It is important to understand the threats that drive a species towards extinction in order to address those drivers. In this paper, we assess our knowledge of the threats faced by 24 Himalayan Galliformes species by undertaking a review of the threats reported in the published literature and the supporting evidence that the threat is having an impact on the species’ populations. Only 24 papers were deemed suitable to be included in the study. We found that biological resource use and agriculture and aquaculture are the predominant threats to the Galliformes in the Greater Himalaya but the evidence available in the studies is quite poor as only one paper quantified the impact on species. This study shows that major gaps exist in our understanding of threats to species, and it is imperative to fill those gaps if we want to prevent species from going extinct.

全球生物多样性面临更高的灭绝风险，我们正在以前所未有的速度丧失物种。为了解决这些驱动因素，了解导致物种走向灭绝的威胁非常重要。在本文中，我们通过回顾已发表文献中报告的威胁以及威胁正在对该物种种群产生影响的支持证据，评估我们对 24 种喜马拉雅鸡形目物种面临的威胁的了解。只有 24 篇论文被认为适合纳入研究。我们发现生物资源利用以及农业和水产养殖是对大喜马拉雅地区鸡形目动物的主要威胁，但研究中可用的证据非常少，因为只有一篇论文量化了对物种的影响。