Wild giraffe populations in northern Africa are rapidly declining, with human activity cited as the main cause. Habitat loss and illegal poaching have left the gentle giant at risk of extinction.

Giraffes might be facing extinction, with their numbers dropping over 40% in the last three decades, but there's an effort to save the long-necked creatures, and it involves a procedure familiar ...

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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared giraffe species vulnerable to extinction, in a news release Thursday (December 8). IUCN had previously declared giraffes a ...

Julian Fennessy, co-director of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF), calls this the “silent extinction,” because unlike the attention lavished on the disappearance of elephants and great ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Giraffes threatened with 'silent extinction'. [Reuters] Masai giraffes, which are listed ...

But these tallest of all land mammals are in the midst of a silent extinction. Africa's giraffe population has dropped by almost 40 percent in the past 30 years, dwindling to just more than 97,000 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal Wednesday to protect a wide swath of giraffes under the Endangered Species Act, the first time the animal would receive protection under the ...

Giraffe populations are in trouble — and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing three subspecies of the tall animals as endangered and two species as threatened under ...

“Considering the ongoing threats to giraffes and their small remaining populations, now is the time for Endangered Species Act protections for this seriously and increasingly imperiled species ...

WASHINGTON— In response to a lawsuit by conservation and animal protection groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed today to a deadline of November 2024 for deciding if giraffes warrant ...