East Africa Climate Change

  Greetings to all.We are delighted to inform you that IUCN Has responded to the online petition on the plight of 11 electrocuted Giraffes at Soysambu Conservancy. IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Giraffe & Okapi Specialist Group 1 March 2021 Position Statement Regarding Electrocuted Giraffe in Soysambu Conservancy The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC) Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group (GOSG) is an internationally recognized voluntary expert body of giraffe research and conservation practitioners with the stated mission of supporting conservation actions designed to ensure the long-term survival of Giraffes across the African continent. Like many, we have become aware of the recent electrocution of multiple giraffe in Soysambu Conservancy in Kenya. While all individuals of a species are important, Soysambu Conservancy contains an important population of near threatened Rothschild’s giraffe, the deaths of which repre