VIDEO. The guardian angel of giraffes

In Garissa, a remote corner in the east of Kenya, near the Somali border, he is called “Daktari”, “the doctor” in Swahili. Ali Abdullahi, biologist, fights to save species and faces enemies: one of the most formidable is drought, which kills wild animals and livestock as drastically as the armed groups and poachers who criss-cross the region. A hundred giraffes, one of the species most affected by the drought, have already died.

Giraffes now threatened with extinction

The giraffe is an emblem of Kenya, but its population continues to decline, in near indifference. Until a photo went around the world: that of the lifeless bodies of six giraffes, lying on the sand, which caused a real awareness of the climate crisis and its consequences.

There are now less than 100,000 giraffes in Africa, five times less than elephants, and in Kenya, they are half as many as thirty years ago. In 2016, they were placed on the red list of endangered species.

A report by David Muntaner, Hélène Eckmann, Thomas Parnet for Kraken Films, rebroadcast In “Special Envoy” March 2, 2023.

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