We are delighted to announce the release of Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home, airing TONIGHT, September 21, at 11pm Eastern on National Geographic Wild Channel,
and coming soon to Disney+!
Photo by Ami Vitale
Check out the trailer for Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home, coming soon to National Geographic Wild Channel and later Disney+! Saving Giraffes has also been selected by Wildscreen Film Festival in the UK!
A Behind the Scenes Look at Saving Giraffes
Dear Giraffe Friends,
Saving Giraffes is a National Geographic film about how Save Giraffes Now, The Ruko Conservancy, Northern Rangelands Trust and the Kenya Wildlife Service rescued nine endangered Rothchild’s giraffe from a sinking island in Lake Baringo and reintroduced them to the mainland after being extinct in the region for 70 years. The film tells the incredible story of how the Ruko community – two tribes previously at war – came together in peace to save these giraffe, and create a 44,000 acre wildlife conservancy.
As such, I wanted to briefly share some behind the scenes special moments and highlights from the rescue that aren’t in the film:
While some of the giraffe had to be tranquilized and guided onto the ‘GiRaft’ to sail across the lake, we were delighted that we were able to use innovative techniques that used food alone to entice three of the giraffe onto the GiRaft so that we didn’t have to dart them at all. It turns out that just like many of us giraffe have a sweet tooth and were very enticed by mangoes!
Save Giraffes Now has made great progress in our giraffe conservation efforts; however, there is much work left to do, and we need your help. Please join us in our fight to ensure giraffe can live freely and safely in their native Africa for generations to come.
