Giraffes Stage a Comeback in West Africa

Publisher:
AlJazeera English
Publication Date:
20 March 2012
Tags:
West Africa, Wildlife, Environment, Sustainable Development, Game Parks and Safaris

Distinguished by its light coloured spots, the West African giraffe once roamed in pockets across Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Benin, that is until drought and hunting decimated their numbers. In 1996, with just 50 left in the wild, conservationists in Niger launched a campaign to protect them from poachers.

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