The young giraffe now lives with a wild herd. Photograph by Ami Vitale The giraffes we have chased for a week are the descendants of some 50 animals that made their way to the West African country ...

Since 1985, the total number of the three northern giraffe subspecies has declined by 77 percent, from 25,653 individuals to just 5,919. In many of their original habitats in West Africa ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding three subspecies of northern giraffe to the Endangered Species List on Wednesday, saying the West African, Kordofan, and Nubian subspecies ...

For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have ...

Two subspecies are particularly at risk: the Rothschild giraffe and the West African giraffe, each with only a few hundred left in the wild. Groups including the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and ...

Known for their 6-foot-long necks, distinctive patterning and long eyelashes, giraffes have always captured the human imagination. These amazing African animals have the highest blood pressure among ...

“For example, there are less than 6 000 northern giraffes remaining in the wild and they live in rather ‘difficult’ regions such as Central and West Africa, while the southern giraffe is ...