How can you help giraffes?
We can all help secure a better future for giraffes!
People all over the world LOVE giraffes. Here are things that you can do to help protect giraffes and their habitats:
- Become aware! Once we know a problem exists, we can work to fix it.
- Join a nature club, like the Junior Giraffe Club.
- Share your knowledge! Teach others what you’ve learned about giraffes and their conservation needs.
- Don’t buy giraffe body parts and help change laws that allow importation of giraffe parts into your country. Click here for more information.
- Support sustainable eco-tourism: visit the places where giraffes live in the wild and help support local economies.
- Support giraffe research and conservation projects: fundraise, donate, or volunteer.
- Ask your local zoo if they have a giraffe conservation program you can support.
- Become a citizen scientist, researcher, or conservationist: Check out Kait’s story, as she pursues her passion to study giraffes. Click here!
- Support habitat restoration projects in giraffe range states.
- Help protect and restore habitat where you live – you may not live near giraffes, but the earth is interconnected and protecting habitat where you live is a great way to do your part!
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This post was written as part of the 2021 celebration of World Giraffe Week, brought to you in partnership with the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation and the Wild Nature Institute.
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