Giraffe



Scientific Name: Giraffa camelopardalis

Common Name(s): Kameelperd (Afrikaans)
Twiga (Swahili)

Status: Conservation Dependent

Estimated Population: Less than 100,000

Population Trend: Decreasing

Threats:                         Poaching for meat, hair, hide, trophy; habitat degradation; human                                      enroachment.

Range:                           Botswana; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo, The
                                     Democratic Republic of the; Ethiopia; Kenya; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger;
                                     Somalia; South Africa; Sudan; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda;
                                     Zambia; Zimbabwe.

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