Giraffe populations are declining at such an alarming rate — from habitat loss, poaching, urbanization and climate ...

US proposes endangered status for giraffes to combat habitat loss, poaching, and illegal trade to save the world's tallest ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has taken a significant step towards protecting giraffes by proposing to list several ...

Giraffe populations are in trouble — and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing three subspecies of the tall animals as endangered and two species as threatened under ...

The giraffe population has dwindled to a point where the species should be protected under federal endangered species laws, U.S. wildlife officials said Wednesday, signaling what would be the ...

which have put insurmountable pressure on giraffe populations. Crops have failed, livestock and animals have died and tens of millions of people are desperately in need of food and water.

But in the savannas of Africa, giraffe populations have plummeted — so much so that the U.S. government is moving to add many of these long-necked mammals to its official list of imperiled species.

Their long neck and tongue, adaptations where the giraffe stretches to obtain food from high foliage, have also been debated. It has been argued that the long neck allows them to access and feed on ...