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 ...

The Rothchild’s giraffe is an endangered subspecies. Because of poaching and habitat loss, only about 2,000 of them remain in Africa — 800 in Kenya — according to O’Connor. “The hope is ...

Community members and zoo staff mourn when a beloved animal dies. Chioke the giraffe was remembered as "gentle, curious, ...

Giraffes are poached for their meat in many regions of Africa — as well as for their pelts, bones, hair and tails — by hunters and trappers wielding snares, guns and other weapons. Giraffe hair is ...

The Giraffe Conservation Foundation estimates ... white giraffes highlighted the threats facing the animals, including poaching for their meat and hide, along with the loss of their habitat ...

The giraffe and 17 others were moved from the north of Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park—where poaching and new dams and roads threaten the species—across the Nile to the park’s south ...

Lack of enforcement of local laws, in addition to civil unrest in certain parts of giraffes' range, have allowed poaching for bushmeat, bones, tail hair and other giraffe parts to become a leading ...

Wild giraffe populations in northern Africa are rapidly declining, with human activity cited as the main cause. Habitat loss and illegal poaching have left the gentle giant at risk of extinction.

“Poaching remains a major threat since we don ... are necessary to safeguard the park's unique environment. The giraffe population in Lake Mburo has grown four-fold since 2015.