Helping Giraffe and People
Save Giraffes Now’s mission is giraffe. However, central to this work are the communities that live alongside giraffe.
Anti-Poaching Rangers and Community Scouts
SGN works directly with communities to establish, manage, and support anti-poaching ranger and scout teams across key giraffe landscapes, including:
Creating Space to Coexist
Consistently protecting giraffe populations through scout teams is important, but another crucial element to SGN’s work is ensuring wildlife and people can coexist peacefully and safely. SGN does this through a variety of programs, such as:
- Improving water accessibility through boreholes, dams, and water pans.
- Studying the impacts of infrastructure – such as overpasses – on giraffe movements to inform future conservation decisions Africa-wide.
- Training teams and implementing conservation monitoring software.
- Cutting down an invasive plant species that blocks wildlife, livestock, and people from reaching rivers
- Establishing wildlife crossing slow zones by installing highway signs.
- Promoting childhood education on the importance of wildlife.
- Working with government officials to advise on the best locations for wildlife crossings and potential highway crossing hotspots.
- Enhancing evidence gathering and prosecutorial support for successful convictions of wildlife poachers.
- Assessing the use of fences and developing proactive plans for the areas where giraffe are trapped within fenced lands and injured on the fencing or unable to reach water sources.
