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Protecting Giraffe From Poaching
Save Giraffes Now establishes, equips, trains, and supports ranger and community scout teams protecting giraffe and other wildlife across important landscapes in Africa.
Rangers and Community Scouts
Many giraffe populations live outside government-protected national parks, making locally based conservation teams an important part of protecting wildlife across these landscapes.
Save Giraffes Now works directly with communities and conservation partners to establish and support anti-poaching ranger and scout teams, including:
- Maanzoni Conservation Area Rangers
- Kamuthe Community Conservancy Scout Team
- Mobile Anti-Poaching Support Rangers
- Milgis Trust Community Scout Team
These teams patrol giraffe habitat, monitor wildlife, identify illegal activity, remove snares, protect important habitat, and work directly with neighboring communities.
Photo: Kamuthe Conservancy Wildlife Community Scouts
Equipping Teams to Protect Wildlife
Effective anti-poaching work requires more than boots on the ground. Save Giraffes Now provides ranger and scout teams with the tools, transportation, training, and technology needed to protect large and often remote landscapes.
This support includes:
- Motorbikes and other transportation for patrol teams.
- Ranger and scout equipment.
- De-snaring operations.
- Training and conservation monitoring.
- Supporting mobile teams that can respond where they are needed most.
- Improving the collection of information on wildlife, habitat conditions, and signs of illegal activity.
- Supporting evidence gathering and other efforts that strengthen responses to wildlife crime.
In remote areas of northern Kenya, SGN-supported teams have even incorporated camels into patrols, allowing scouts to carry supplies and cover difficult terrain without relying solely on vehicles.
Photo: Goo Moremi received an essential quad bike to help them better monitor the giraffe while navigating difficult terrain during patrols.
Using Technology to Strengthen Protection
Save Giraffes Now also trains conservation teams to use tools such as EarthRanger, which brings together information from ranger patrols, wildlife sightings, habitat conditions, and signs of illegal activity.
This allows teams to identify threats, plan patrols, allocate resources, and respond more effectively across important giraffe landscapes. SGN has implemented EarthRanger and similar monitoring technologies across multiple landscapes in Kenya and Botswana.
Protecting Giraffe Where They Live
SGN’s anti-poaching programs are designed around the needs of each landscape. In some areas this means supporting full-time community scouts; in others, mobile ranger units travel long distances to respond to threats. The common goal is to give the people protecting giraffe the resources they need to safeguard wildlife and their habitat.
Photo: Milgis Community Scouts on patrol in the desert
We need your help to protect wild giraffe populations and
ensure they can live freely and safely for generations to come.
