Giraffes are a majestic sight in Africa with their long necks and distinctive spots. Now it turns out there are four different giraffe species on the continent, according to a new scientific analysis ...

Michael Brown works for the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and is an affiliated researcher for the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He receives funding from the Giraffe ...

Debora Patta is a CBS News senior foreign correspondent based in Johannesburg. Since joining CBS News in 2013, she has reported on major stories across Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Edward R.

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The giraffe, the tallest land animal, is now at risk of extinction, biologists say. Because the giraffe population has shrunk nearly 40 percent in just 30 years, scientists put it on the official ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Conservationists at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are turning to the public with a new way to help guide their efforts to safe threatened giraffe in Africa. Ecologist David O'Connor ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African animal orphanage says a baby giraffe that was befriended by a dog after it was abandoned in the wild has died. The Rhino Orphanage in a Facebook post Friday said ...

This photo provided by Michael Brown with the International Union for Conservation of Nature in August 2025 shows a herd of northern giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) in Uganda's Kidepo Valley ...