Atlas Obscura || It took a custom-built barge and a whole lot of patience to get these rare animals off a shrinking island. On a sunny day at Kenya’s Lake Baringo, a barge floated gently by. Its main passenger calmly munched on his favorite snack of acacia seed pods. At...
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Giraffes are stuck on a flooding island. But the rescues have begun
CNN || Time was running out for Asiwa, a Rothschild’s giraffe in western Kenya. For years, she and seven other giraffes had been living on a peninsula that reached out into Lake Baringo. But rising lake levels, caused by relentless rain, had gradually turned the peninsula into an island, leaving...
The stranded giraffes being rescued by raft
BBC || Giraffes are being rescued by raft in Kenya after the peninsula where they live was cut off by flooding, forming a new island.The eight Rothchild's giraffes being rehomed represent an estimated one percent of the increasingly rare species in the country, according to the charity Save Giraffes Now.This...
Conservationists trying to save Kenyan giraffes stranded on flooding island
Reuters || Conservationists are working to rescue giraffes stranded on an island in Lake Boringo in western Kenya after heavy rains led to the flooding of their rangeland habitat, threatening the animals with drowning. Relentless rains have increased lake levels which began to swallow up the peninsula where the giraffes...
