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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed new protections for giraffes, saying their populations are threatened by poaching, habitat loss and climate change. Giraffes need endangered species ...
By RYAN GORMAN 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 ...
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 ...
Giraffes as a species are classified as vulnerable according to the IUCN, but their populations are rapidly declining, with some subspecies being listed as critically endangered [13] Their primary threats are poaching, human population growth, habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, and habitat degradation.
As of 2018, Rothschild's giraffe is classified as near threatened. Very few locations are left where Rothschild's giraffe can be seen in the wild, with notable spots being Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya [15] and Murchison Falls National Park [16] in northern Uganda. Their predators are hyenas, lions, crocodiles, and leopards. [10]
Compared to most other subspecies, the Kordofan giraffe is relatively small at 3.8 to 4.7 meters, [5] with more irregular spots on the inner legs. There are around 2,300 individuals living in the wild. [6] In the wild, female Kordofan giraffes live in loose groups, whilst males live solitary. [4] They have an average lifespan of around 35 years ...
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 ...
[2] [3] The West African giraffe was also eradicated from Senegal, being native to some sections of southeastern Niger. [2] This fact originally led zoologists to believe that the Senegalese giraffe was a distinctly different population of Giraffa camelopardalis peralta, although the different coat colors and body structures said otherwise. [2]