In Niger, an assessment of the country’s potential habitats determined the safest place to park a second population of West African giraffes was on 2.5 million uninhabited acres in Gadabedji ...

For almost 50 years, the highly threatened West African giraffe has been absent from Niger's Gadabedji Biosphere Reserve. Illegal hunting, climate change and habitat loss have all contributed to ...

Habitat: Giraffes use both semi-arid savannah and savannah woodlands in Africa. Range: Giraffes are found in fragmented habitats scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Breeding: Giraffe pregnancy ...

Africa's giraffe population has dropped by almost 40 percent in the past 30 years, dwindling to just more than 97,000 individuals — which may seem like a big number, but not in giraffes' case (just ...

Using the newly discovered 20° gradient threshold, the researchers were able to calculate the proportion of habitats in key African countries where giraffes are currently found that are ...

This unit of three sessions imagines life at a typical waterhole in the African bush as animals come ... Warm up: controlled stretches. Giraffes: arm above head to create neck and head; travelling ...

A zebra has died at a zoo following an incident involving a rhino, a spokesperson said. Colchester Zoo said the incident took ...

signaling what would be the first protections for the African animal after years of petitions by conservation groups claiming giraffes face extinction amid a rise in poaching and habitat loss.

Giraffe numbers in Africa have fallen by 40% in the past 30 ... predominantly for domestic use, habitat loss, human population growth and civil unrest in East and Central Africa are resulting ...