United Press International || Wildlife rescuers said two giraffes were removed from a flooding island in Kenya via a steel barge and four more of the animals are to be rescued in the coming days.Nonprofit rescue group Save Giraffes Now said it teamed up with the Kenyan Wildlife Service and...
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Rescue barge saves two giraffes from flooded island – but six are still stranded there
The Independent || Conservationists have started a daring rescue of eight giraffes trapped on a flooded island in Kenya. Footage released by charity Save Giraffes Now showed a female giraffe named Asiwa being loaded onto a steel barge and transported four miles down river to a nature reserve. The NGO...
World’s Only Known White Giraffe Now Has a GPS Tracker
Smithsonian Magazine || The Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy in eastern Kenya is home to rare and endangered animals like hirola antelopes, maneless plains zebras and reticulated giraffes—including one nameless male giraffe with unusual white fur. Now, the park has attached a GPS tracker to the white giraffe’s head that will...
World’s Only Known Living White Giraffe Fitted with GPS in Kenya After Poachers Kill Its Family
People || The world's only known living white giraffe has been fitted with a GPS tracker to protect it from poachers in southeast Kenya. The 15-foot tall male giraffe is currently alone in Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy in Ijara, Garissa County, after two other white giraffes in the conservancy, a female...
