The Mindoro imperial pigeon is distributed throughout Mindoro, where sufficient closed canopy forests remain. They used to be found mostly in mountain forests above 1000m. However, in 1991, most of the observations were made in understory trees of the remaining low altitude forests of Mindoro (800-950m). This species is rare and uncommon, but known to be found more easily in Mount Ilong and Mount Halcon. Its habitat is threatened by logging, cultivation, deforestation and forest destruction.