The world’s giraffes are in danger!

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Giraffes have been threatened with extinction for years, but their plight has gone largely unnoticed. A new law in America could help prevent Africa’s iconic long-necked animals from disappearing.

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00:17 Another major threat to giraffes today is drought.
00:20 Due to climate change, when you have the long drought spells,
00:24 you find that they lack food and some of them perish.
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00:42 The Russell giraffes are the ones here at the giraffe centre
00:45 and it's an endangered subspecies.
00:48 And the cause of it becoming endangered was habitat destruction and poaching.
00:55 So today we have less than 2,500 individuals of them in the whole world.
01:00 They are found in Kenya and Uganda and most of them are in Uganda.
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