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Organizations aim to block funds for East African oil pipeline by Mongabay.com on 1 March 2021 On March 1, more than 260 organizations issued an open letter to the banks identified as financial advisers for the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, as well as to 25 others reportedly considering offering loans to fund its construction. The pipeline would carry oil from fields in western Uganda to a port on the northern coast of Tanzania. The human rights and environmental organizations that sent the letter say the pipeline’s construction poses “unacceptable” risks to communities and the environment in Uganda and Tanzania and beyond. ....
Endangered giraffes killed by low hanging power lines in Kenya Issued on: 23/02/2021 - 11:26 Animal campaigners in Kenya say power lines in Soysambu Conservancy have become a “death trap” for giraffes. CC0/Pixabay 2 min Kenya’s main power company has promised to raise the height of its power lines in the Soysambu Conservancy after three rare Rothschild giraffes were electrocuted. Advertising Read more News of the deaths emerged when environmentalists posted pictures of the felled animals on Twitter. It’s understood one giraffe was killed on Friday, and the other two a day later. Under the hashtag #Soysambugiraffes, critics warned low hanging power lines in Soysambu Conservancy in Nakuru County, had become a “death trap” for giraffes. ....
Close A Giraffe (Giraffa) is considered the tallest living terrestrial mammal in the world. On average, these magnificent beasts towers over all the other animals at an astonishing 18 feet in height. But recently, local wildlife scientists discovered two that are smaller than the usual size. (Giraffe: Photo by Howling Red) In Africa, scientists researching animal conservation organizations stumbled upon an Angolan (Gimil) and a Nubian (Nigel) Giraffe. GCF researchers recently spotted two dwarf giraffe in Namibia and Uganda. These adult male giraffe are the first dwarf. Posted by Giraffe Conservation Foundation on Saturday, January 2, 2021 What made this a unique experience is that the Giraffes they found had less than half the average Giraffe s height. The latter measured to reach nine feet (9 ft), four inches (4 in), while the former was just eight and a half feet (8 and 1/2 ft). ....
Scientists Discover Short-Legged Corgi Giraffes Photo: Emma Wells, GCF Being extremely tall is sort of a giraffe’s whole thing. So when scientists recently spotted two wild giraffes with relatively short legs nearly halving their adult height they were stunned. Advertisement “The initial reaction was a bit of curious disbelief,” said Michael Brown, a conservation biologist with the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. In 2015, Brown and his colleagues were conducting photographic surveys of the Nubian giraffes in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, monitoring the animals’ abundance and geographic distribution. Sometimes, said Brown, the team can see hundreds of giraffes in a single day. ....