World Giraffe Day: Celebrating the Tallest Land Animal Annually.
The World Giraffe Day marks the 21 st of June every year; it is an essential international campaign on the need to create awareness with regard to the dwindling population of the tallest land animal in the world.
Celebrating World Giraffe Day: Honoring Earth’s Tallest Gentle Giants Today
The World Giraffe Day marks the 21 st of June every year; it is an essential international campaign on the need to create awareness with regard to the dwindling population of the tallest land animal in the world. Much to the panache of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF), this is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and was carefully selected to capture how high the giraffe bows and its symbolism to roll out longer conservation actions to the giraffe.
World Giraffe Day is mainly aimed at fighting the so-called silent extinction that the GCF and the world-known naturalists, such as Sir David Attenborough, refer to. As most of the most well-known species are being given considerable amount of conservation effort, giraffes have in many cases been losing almost a third of their population in the last 35 years without much attention people may know much about. The number of their population has significantly gone down to around 117,000 in the wild today after an estimate of 155,000 in 1985. This is a drastic loss pegged partly upon habitat destruction and fragmenting, political upheavals and unsustainable poaching.
Various zoos, schools, conservation and individual organizations hold events and campaigns on the World Giraffe Day to create awareness on these great animals and the factors that threaten them.
There are many different activities, including educational programmes, keeper talks, and children’s crafts, to fundraising efforts and social media campaigns using hashtags like #StandTallForGiraffe, which aim to create passion around giraffe conservation and foster real action.
A key message of World Giraffe Day is the ability to support organizations such as the GCF, who are doing the actual ‘heavy lifting’ on the ground in Africa supporting giraffes by translocating giraffes to safe habitats, monitoring existing populations, anti-poaching efforts, and working with local communities to offer education and conservation involvement.
Not only are organizations reclaiming millions of acres of giraffe habitat and recording new populations, but also raising awareness and concern for giraffe conservation.
Beyond direct conservation, World Giraffe Day encourages levels of personal environmental stewardship to aid in these efforts, whether it is to actively lower your carbon footprint, support responsible eco-tourism, advocate for more wildlife protection legislation, and/or making more conscientious and sustainable lifestyle choices.
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“Silent extinction” shows how rapidly a species can vanish if we are not proactive. World Giraffe Day encourages us to realize that protecting individual gentle giants involves protecting biodiversity, and the intricate tapestry of our planet’s heritage.
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