Read All About It: Some giraffes now critically endangered

The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper in California reports that some giraffe species are still critically endangered in the wild and in urgent need of further protection.

Quotable quote: “Giraffes, once plentiful throughout Africa, have plummeted close to extinction in some regions. In others, populations of the graceful treetop browsers actually have grown through conservation efforts . . . The threats facing each of the subspecies differs, with those in southern Africa doing very well but those in East and central Africa struggling.”

Catch the rest of the story by Bradley Fikes here