Giraffe Amirah and mother Audrey. (Courtesy photo) The Santa Barbara Zoo will soon bid farewell to Amirah, the zoo's almost 2-year-old female Masai ...

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 effo… ...

Giraffe subspecies from across Africa are at risk, according to the agency. The service proposed listing West African, Kordofan and Nubian giraffes as endangered. It also proposed listing Masai ...

Currently, two of the nine giraffe subspecies—the Kordofan and Nubian—are critically endangered, while the Reticulated is endangered. Now, after a recent assessment, the Masai subspecies has ...

Three giraffe subspecies should be added to the endangered species list, U.S. officials said Wednesday, as their populations continue a yearslong trend of decline. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing three Africa-based giraffe subspecies as endangered: The West African, Kordofan and Nubian giraffes, whose combined population has declined by ...

Further afield in Central Africa, the Kordofan giraffe, another of the multitude subspecies, has witnessed an 85 percent decrease. In 2010, giraffes were a species of “least concern” on the ...

There are around 45,000 Southern and 35,000 Masai mature giraffes of ... 15,875 are in the wild, but fewer mating pairs. Meanwhile, the Northern giraffe has three subspecies – the Kordofan ...

The agency proposed that multiple giraffe subspecies be put on the endangered species list, including West African, Kordofan, ... Masai, Angolan, and South African giraffes, should be considered ...

A tall story: Scientists confirm there are FOUR distinct species of giraffe, not just one - and they're as different as brown and polar bears Researchers mapped the genomes of 50 giraffes found ...

Three giraffe subspecies should be added to the endangered species list, U.S. officials said Wednesday, as their populations continue a yearslong trend of decline. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...