World Giraffe Day is an exciting annual event initiated by GCF to celebrate the longest-necked animal on the longest day or night of the year – 21 June – every year!
The Giraffe Conservation Foundation is excited to announce that World Giraffe Day – 21 June 2017 is dedicated to saving Masai giraffe in Kenya and Tanzania.
By supporting World Giraffe Day (WGD) you directly help save giraffe in Africa. With only 100,000 giraffe remaining in the wild, the time is right to act NOW!
According to the GCF blog, this year, World Giraffe Day 2017 focuses on the Masai giraffe in southern Kenya and Tanzania.
Zoos, schools, NGOs, governments, institutions, companies and conservation organisations around the world are hosting events on 21 June every year to raise awareness and support for giraffe in the wild
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and Cleveland Zoo Society are committed to securing a future for giraffe.
Not only is it a worldwide celebration of these amazing and much loved animals, but an annual event to raise support, create awareness and shed light on the challenges giraffe face in the wild.
The Giraffe Conservation Foundation, based in Namibia, is dedicated solely to the conservation of giraffe and its habitat and works closely with African and international government and non-government organizations, universities and other partners.
Giraffe populations in the wild have decreased 40% in the last decade. There are now fewer giraffe in the wild than African elephants.
Giraffes, like this baby pictured in Japan a few years back, are loved the world over. So the world pauses each year on June 21, or near that date, to pay tribute to the beautiful, neck-mazing beasties.
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