Northeastern Kenya
Somali (reticulated) giraffe populations have declined by 50% in the last 30 years. With less than 16,000 left, they are listed as an Endangered species. Today these giraffe are largely restricted to the northern Kenya Rangelands, and a small number in southern Somalia and Ethiopia. 95% of their range is outside of formal protected areas.
Save Giraffes Now has partnered with the community-led Somali Giraffe Project to work across unprotected community lands in remote northeastern Kenya to save these giraffe. This effort includes enabling anti-poaching rangers, scouts, and patrols, snare removal, de-snaring animals that are caught, reducing human-giraffe conflict as well gathering vital information on giraffe population and movements.
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The Somali (reticulated) giraffe are a unique species of giraffe that exist only today in northern Kenya rangelands (with some smaller, little understood populations in southern Somali and Ethiopia). Over the past 30 years the reticulated giraffe population has declined by 50%, with just 16,000 of these endangered giraffe surviving in the wild today.
Just 5% of their range is on formally protected land, the vast majority of where they roam is on community lands or areas without protection. By partnering with local communities and livestock herders that share their land with these giraffe, SGN can slow or stop the downward trend, and offer the giraffe a far better future, sustainably co-existing with people and livestock.
As mentioned, these vital populations of reticulated giraffe live in northeastern Kenya, a challenging area that suffers from high levels of illegal poaching of giraffe, as well as being a base for terrorist activities in the region.
Despite these challenges, Save Giraffes Now has partnered with the Somali Giraffe Project that is based in this unsettled area. This locally led organization has been very effective in working with communities to protect giraffe, and reduce the illegal poaching of giraffe. The focus of the work supports anti-poaching rangers, scouts, and patrols. These teams also conduct snare removal and de-snaring animals caught in these horrendous traps.
The challenge in this area for giraffe is large, but SGN believes these collaborative, community-led efforts will disincentivize poaching, increase protection, and allow for a bright future for these unique giraffe and the people living alongside them.