Giraffes face mounting threats from habitat loss and fragmentation: Growing human populations and urban development — and the accompanying increase in agriculture, mines, and other extractive ...

These intelligent and unique creatures are vulnerable to threats from loss of habitat, climate change, and illegal poaching. Poachers hunt giraffes for their meat, skin, brain, and bone marrow.

“What’s killing giraffes in southern Kenya is fences. They’re an even bigger threat than poaching. Giraffes can’t jump over fences, which means their ranges are being fragmented,” says ...

This allows rangers to monitor its movements daily, enhancing efforts to protect the giraffe from potential poaching threats. The unique coloration of the white giraffe in the conservancy ...

Time was running out for Asiwa, a Rothschild’s giraffe in western Kenya. For years, she and seven other giraffes had been living on a peninsula that reached out into Lake Baringo. But rising ...

The giraffe population at Lake Mburo National Park ... “Poaching remains a major threat since we don’t have enough monitoring patrols,” she said in an interview on Tuesday, February 17 ...

A giraffe at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona, decided to familiarize herself with the neighborhood. On Wednesday, March 5, Msituni, a three-year-old female reticulated giraffe, escaped from ...

A young giraffe is defying the odds, walking with his herd just two weeks after groundbreaking surgery to save his severely injured leg.