📢It’s Official: Giraffes Added to Endangered Species List Under Threat of Extinction
Oops — humans did it again. Not one, but two subspecies of giraffes have been added to a list of endangered animals. This means that they are under threat of extinction, and it is largely due to human activity in their habitats.
According to a new report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), numbers of the mammals have decreased by 40% over the last three decades. As a result, the subspecies were moved from the list of “Least Concern” to “Vulnerable” in its Red List of Threatened Species.
The IrishPost reports:
“Two specific subspecies – the Kordofan and Nubian – were reclassified as ‘Critically Endangered’, with populations dwindling quickest in wild areas of Eritrea, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Malawi, Mauritania, and Senegal.”
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