Terra Mater
How Conservationists Are Saving the Giraffe
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For centuries, giraffes have been undergoing a silent extinction: a population of more than 1 million dropped to under 100,000. But a recent study suggests this number may have increased by 20% – an apparent comeback due partly to conservation efforts, but also to better survey methods.
How do conservationists monitor giraffes, and why is it so important to learn about their lives? We take a look at the work being done by organizations like the Giraffe Conservation Foundation – from pioneering new technologies, to translocations that return giraffes to regions in which they’ve gone extinct. Could methods like these help save this giant of the African savanna?
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👉🏽 You can follow the GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION on their youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GiraffeConservationFoundation
For further information about their work, please visit their website. Here you can also donate to help GCF bring back the giraffe from the brink of extinction: https://giraffeconservation.org/donate/
🌸 We'd like to thank our friends from the CONSERVATION FILM COMPANY https://www.conservationfilmco.com/ and the GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION https://library.giraffeconservation.org/ for their help and their amazing footage.
▶️ An be sure to check out the YouTube channel of our friends from the CONSERVATION FILM COMPANY, they have great videos! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB33u5XWD7CI7f4Mja3cegw
📖 SCIENTIFIC SOURCES:
Conservation Status of Giraffe: Evaluating Contemporary Distribution and Abundance with Evolving Taxonomic Perspectives
Michael B Brown (a,b), Tushar Kulkarni (a), Sara Ferguson (a), Stephanie Fennessy (a), Arthur Muneza (a), Jared A Stabach (b), and Julian Fennessy (a), (a – Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Windhoek, Namibia; b – Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States)
© 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
https://library.giraffeconservation.org/download/conservation-status-of-giraffe-evaluating-contemporary-distribution-and-abundance-with-evolving-taxonomic-perspectives/
Giraffe populations are rising, giving new hope to scientists
Giraffe numbers are 20 percent higher than in 2015, an increase linked to conservation efforts and more accurate survey data.
by Douglas Main
published 14 Jan 2022, 10:52 GMT
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/2022/01/giraffe-populations-are-rising-giving-new-hope-to-scientists
First insights into past biodiversity of giraffes
based on mitochondrial sequences from museum specimens
2020 · Petzold A. et al.
European Journal of Taxonomy 703: 1–33
https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1065/2543
🎦 VIDEO SOURCES
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‘Updated geographic range maps for giraffe, Giraffa spp., throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and implications of changing distributions for conservation’, David O’Connor, Jenna Stacy-Dawes, Arthur Muneza, Julian Fennessy, et al., Mammal Review (49: 4), October 2019, https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12165
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A distribution map of all four species of giraffe (Fennessy et al., 2016). Range map is derived from data presented in O’Connor D, Stacy-Dawes J, Muneza A, Fennessy J, Gobush K, Chase MJ et al. (2019) Updated geographic range maps for giraffe, Giraffa spp., throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and implications of changing distributions for conservation. Mammal Review doi: 10.1111/mam.12165.
‘Conservation Status of Giraffe: Evaluating Contemporary Distribution and Abundance with Evolving Taxonomic Perspectives’,
Michael B Brown (a,b), Tushar Kulkarni (a), Sara Ferguson (a), Stephanie Fennessy (a), Arthur Muneza (a), Jared A Stabach (b), and Julian Fennessy (a), (a – Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Windhoek, Namibia; b – Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States). © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
TC 01:35
‘Giraffes facing “silent extinction” as population plunges’, Matt McGrath, BBC News, 8 December 2016, https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38240760
TC 01:46
‘Updated geographic range maps for giraffe, Giraffa spp., throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and implications of changing distributions for conservation’, David O’Connor, Jenna Stacy-Dawes, Arthur Muneza, Julian Fennessy, et al., Mammal Review (49: 4), October 2019, https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12165
‘Giraffes facing “silent extinction” as population plunges’, Matt McGrath, BBC News, 8 December 2016, https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38240760
TC 02:13
https://giraffeconservation.org/2021/11/04/gcf-annual-report-2020-21/
TC 06:01
‘Giraffe Population Numbers Are on the Rise’, Mary Jo DiLonardo, Treehugger, 1 March 2022
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‘Giraffe Translocations 2022’, Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Twitter, 13 March 2022)
Published May 20, 2022
