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 said that two of eight giraffes stuck on the island had now been rescued and the remaining animals are set to be moved in the next few months.

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