Population now confined to PAs, Rothschild's giraffe to be declared "threatened" by IUCN
APA-Nairobi (Kenya) The Rothschild’s giraffe is the latest charismatic African mammal to be declared "endangered" by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), adding to the growing number of species under threat of extinction.
According to an IUCN statement issued in Nairobi Wednesday, there are currently nine recognized giraffe sub-species and the Rothschild’s is the second most imperiled, with fewer than 670 individuals remaining in the wild.
Historically, ranging across western Kenya, Uganda, and Southern Sudan, it has been almost totally eliminated from most of its former habitat and now survives in only a few small and isolated populations in Kenya and Uganda.