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Creating Space to Coexist
Save Giraffes Now works with communities and conservation partners to develop practical solutions that help giraffe, wildlife, livestock, and people safely share the same landscapes.
Improving Access to Water
Access to reliable water is essential for both wildlife and the communities living alongside them. Save Giraffes Now develops and improves water sources in important giraffe landscapes, particularly in areas affected by drought and changing environmental conditions.
Our work includes:
- Improving Water Sources for Giraffe & Communities
- Drilling and maintaining boreholes.
- Installing solar pumps and water storage systems.
- Restoring dams and water pans.
- Opening and maintaining access to rivers.
- Removing invasive vegetation that prevents wildlife, livestock, and people from reaching water.
These projects are designed to provide practical benefits for both giraffe conservation and the people who share the landscape with them.
Photo Credit Nathan Mbithi: Giraffe drinking at a trough recently built by Save Giraffes Now in the Athi-Kapiti Plains.
Creating Safer Landscapes for Giraffe
As roads, railways, settlements, fencing, and other infrastructure expand across giraffe habitat, maintaining safe movement between important areas is increasingly critical.
Save Giraffes Now supports research and on-the-ground solutions that help identify where giraffe are most at risk and how those risks can be reduced.
Examples of this work include:
- Wildlife Highway Crossing Research
- Understanding How Infrastructure Impacts Giraffe Movements
- Studying how giraffe use wildlife crossings and underpasses.
- Identifying high-risk highway crossing areas.
- Supporting wildlife crossing slow zones and road signage.
- Working with government officials and conservation partners to inform the placement of wildlife crossings.
- Assessing fencing and other barriers that can restrict giraffe movement or access to water.
Research in Kenya’s Athi-Kapiti Plains is already helping identify where drought, roads, and access to resources intersect to create higher-risk crossing areas for giraffe.
Photo: Giraffes attempting dangerous road crossing
Working With Communities
Long-term giraffe conservation depends on the people who live alongside wildlife every day. Save Giraffes Now works with local communities to support conservation education, improve shared natural resources, create conservation employment opportunities, and develop solutions that benefit people as well as wildlife.
Photo: Ruko Community (Photo by Tyler Schiffman)
We need your help to protect wild giraffe populations and
ensure they can live freely and safely for generations to come.
