{"id":15844,"date":"2024-03-27T12:13:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15844"},"modified":"2025-02-24T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:29:33","slug":"tall-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/blog\/tall-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Giraffe Conservation: Tall Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>We are delighted to announce the first of several project partnerships for 2024: Kordofan Conservation in Chad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giraffe Conservation Foundation supports giraffe conservation initiatives in&nbsp;20&nbsp;African countries and is the only NGO dedicated to conservation of giraffe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve supported their work in Niger, Uganda and Namibia as well as working with African Parks in Garamba in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to Kordofan giraffe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To mark GCF&#8217;s 15th Anniversary this year we will continue to raise awareness about the plight of giraffe across Africa and to support their work, this year in Chad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We are delighted that Dr Julian Fennessy, Director of Conservation and co-founder of GCF,&nbsp;&nbsp;will be joining us at London&#8217;s Royal Geographical Society in November to report fresh from the frontline of conservation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chad is home to 60% of the world population of Critically Endangered Kordofan giraffe &#8211; most of these are found in Zakouma National Park although there was an exciting discovery in 2022 when&nbsp;a previously unknown Kordofan giraffe population of at least 40 individuals was identified in the&nbsp;Koundjourou area in Chad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chad offers&nbsp;a lot of potential habitat for giraffe but it sits in a challenging area of Africa with economic and political instability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read more about this project partnership&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/project\/kordofan-conservation-in-chad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>here&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Images: GCF &#8211; Michael Viljoen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce the first of several project partnerships for 2024: Kordofan Conservation in Chad Giraffe Conservation Foundation supports giraffe conservation initiatives in&nbsp;20&nbsp;African countries and is the only&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[517,545],"tags":[598,221,599],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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