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Giraffes need new protections under the United States Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials proposed on Wednesday, Nov. 20. West African, Kordofan and Nubian ...
Herd of reticulated giraffes in the Samburu National Reserve, Kenya on Nov. 23, 2023. / Credit: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images
The three subspecies of northern giraffe officials are proposing to be listed as endangered include the West African, Kordofan and Nubian giraffes, whose populations have plummeted by roughly 77% ...
The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to ... 52–53 It is the most endangered subspecies within ... southern Zimbabwe and, since mid-2023, ...
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.
Rothschild's giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis) is an ecotype of the Nubian giraffe. It is one of the most endangered distinct populations of giraffe, with 1,399 mature individuals estimated in the wild in 2018. [1]
Over the years, giraffe populations have seen significant declines. Three subspecies have declined by 77 percent since 1985, from 25,653 to 5,919 individual animals.
Giraffes are listed as endangered, and their populations have declined by nearly 40% in the past 30 years because of habitat loss, civil unrest, and poaching, Riverbanks Zoo & Garden officials said.