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.

These giraffes primarily live in Cameroon ... “We need to get into a pattern where we’re able to recognize the threats to species in a much quicker way, or we’re going to lose all of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Giraffes always stand out in a crowd. A Michigan taxidermist transporting a stuffed giraffe in his pick-up truck on a busy road alarmed motorists who spotted the exotic animal’s long neck eerily ...