Bohor Reedbuck are associated with woodland and floodplain grassland across much of their range. They are effectively water-dependent grazers, but show a strong preference for extensive areas of flood plains and open inundated grasslands where access to water may become restricted in the dry season (Kingdon and Hoffmann 2013). On the extreme north-eastern margins of its range, this species has colonized montane areas, such as the Bale Mtns up to about 3,200 m, beyond its usual preferred habitats (Yalden et al. 1996). In some marginal parts of its range, such as the Aberdares in Kenya and the Ethiopian Highlands, this species co-exists with the Mountain Reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula), while over much of Tanzania its range overlaps with that of the Southern Reedbuck (Redunca arundinum).

The Bohor Reedbuck (Redunca redunca) ranges north of the forest zone from Senegal, The Gambia, and southwest Mauritania through the woodlands and floodplain grasslands of the savanna zone of West Africa through southern Chad, the savanna woodlands of the Central African Republic, extreme northeast DR Congo, South Sudan, to Ethiopia and south to Lake Tanganyika and the Rovuma River in Tanzania (East 1999, Kingdon and Hoffmann 2013). Bohor Reedbucks formerly occurred in the southwestern savannas of Eritrea, but there is no recent confirmation of the species status in that country; likewise, their current status in Burundi is unknown (East 1999, Kingdon and Hoffmann 2013). In West Africa they have undergone fairly large range contractions, and may now be extinct in Togo and Côte d’Ivoire (Kingdon and Hoffmann 2013).

The Bohor Reedbuck is now generally uncommon/rare where it survives in West Africa, but viable populations may persist in some areas such as Corubal River (Guinea-Bissau) and Arty-Singou and Nazinga (Burkina Faso) and the WAPOK protected area complex. It is more numerous in Central and East Africa, with major populations in areas such as Bouba Ndjida (Cameroon), Manovo-Gounda-St. Floris (Central African Republic), Bale Mountains (Ethiopia), Murchison Falls and Pian-Upe (Uganda), Mara (Kenya) and Serengeti, Moyowosi-Kigosi and Selous (Tanzania). Some of these key populations are decreasing because of poaching, especially in West and Central Africa. They are surely on the verge of extinction in Akagera, their last known stronghold in Rwanda (Apio and Wronski 2011). About three-quarters of the estimated total occurs in protected areas (East 1999). If current trends persist, the Bohor Reedbuck should continue to survive in reasonable numbers in national parks, equivalent reserves and hunting concessions in East Africa, but it will become increasingly uncommon in West and Central Africa until its survival in these regions is eventually threatened. More active protection and management of areas which retain viable populations will be necessary to reverse this trend.