giraffe – Desdemona Despair

One of sixty-six giraffes arrives in central China’s Henan Province in the early hours of Sunday, 15 October 2017, on a chartered flight from Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo: Henan Daily

July 20, 2019

Scientists declare Masai giraffes “Endangered” – “We have to regulate the international giraffe trade or risk losing one of our planet’s most remarkable animals”

WASHINGTON, 11 July 2019 (Center for Biological Diversity) – Highlighting the need for global action to fight giraffes’ silent extinction, a body of scientific experts today declared giraffes in Kenya and Tanzania — called Masai giraffes — endangered. Masai giraffes, one of nine giraffe subspecies, had long been considered a key population for the species. But […]