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Giraffes need endangered species protection, U.S. officials say. Aliza Chasan. Updated November 22, 2024 at 11:38 AM. Giraffe populations are in trouble — and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
The number of giraffes has decreased by nearly 30% since the 1980s, per the Giraffe Conservation Foundation Giraffes Need Protections of Endangered Species Act After Declining Numbers, U.S ...
African giraffes are in danger of becoming extinct. Hunting and poaching have decimated the continent's giraffe population by about 40 percent, according to one estimate. There are now only about ...
Endangered West African giraffe near Koure, Niger The primary causes for giraffe population declines are habitat loss and direct killing for bushmeat markets. Giraffes have been extirpated from much of their historic range, including Eritrea , Guinea , Mauritania and Senegal . [ 1 ]
Northern giraffes live in savannahs, shrublands, and woodlands. After numerous local extinctions, Northern giraffes are the least numerous giraffe species, and the most endangered. In East Africa, they are mostly found in Kenya and southwestern Ethiopia, and rarely in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan.
West African giraffes near Kouré, Niger. In the mid-1990s there were only 49 in the whole of West Africa. These giraffes were formally protected by the Niger government and have now risen to 600. [11] Conservation efforts since the 1990s have led to a sizable growth in population, though largely limited to the single Dosso herd.
The IUCN currently recognizes only one species of giraffe, with nine subspecies, one of which is the Nubian giraffe. [1] The Nubian giraffe, along with the whole species, were first known by the binomen Cervus camelopardalis described by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in the Systema Naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis ...
The Biden administration has proposed new protections for giraffes, saying it would crack down on imports containing giraffe body parts. If finalized, a new proposal would require permits to ...