Giraffe facts and conservation for World Giraffe Day 2025

Happy World Giraffe Day! I begin today's biodiversity holiday with Celebrating World Giraffe Day with Africam!

Join us in celebrating World Giraffe Day with Africam! From their towering grace to their quirky drinking stances, giraffes are some of the most iconic animals of the African bush.

Watch as these gentle giants visit the waterhole, interact with other wildlife, and remind us why giraffe conservation matters.

Those are the giraffe facts. Now for giraffe conservation with the American Humane Society's GH-CFA Celebrates World Giraffe Day | June 21, 2025.

In Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park, Rothschild’s giraffes, one of the rarest giraffe subspecies, move quietly across the landscape. Classified as endangered, these giraffes are a vital part of Uganda’s natural heritage. Poaching snares, set to catch smaller animals, often trap unintended victims, including giraffes.

Despite their size, giraffes are particularly vulnerable to poaching snares and their injuries can be life-threatening if left untreated. That’s where our Elephant and Wildlife Rescue Unit steps in. Working alongside our partners at the Uganda Conservation Foundation and the Uganda Wildlife Authority, the veterinary team responds rapidly to wildlife in distress, treating their injuries and stabilizing them for safe release. In the first five months of 2025, the unit has already rescued 28 giraffes, giving each one a second chance at life in the wild.

That's giraffe conservation in the wild. Most of my readers do not live in countries where giraffes live free. Instead, they would only encounter giraffes in the flesh in zoos. Conservation goes on there, as the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo shows in last year's Happy World Giraffe Day!

Today, on the longest day of the year, we are celebrating the longest-necked animal: the giraffe!

In celebrating World Giraffe Day, we are also celebrating the almost two-year anniversary of the International Center for the Care and Conservation of Giraffe. Established in 2022, The Giraffe Center is a concentrated effort by CMZoo to consolidate resources and expand educational programs in order to improve and enrich the lives of giraffe in human care worldwide. One of the ways they achieve this is through in-person and virtual workshops. These workshops include lecture-style presentations, group discussions, role-playing and actual practice focused on giraffe nutrition, natural behaviors, hoof anatomy and care, and positive reinforcement training. Since 2022, The Giraffe Center has helped organizations in 28 different countries and has had hundreds of requests for information and assistance with giraffe care.

Learn more about the International Center for the Care and Conservation of Giraffe at cmzoo.org/giraffecenter.

Zoos play a part in conservation, too!

I am extending the streak of holidays one more day because tomorrow is World Rainforest Day. Stay tuned to see how I combine celebrating that day with the Sunday entertainment feature, which may still be coverage of the News & Doc Emmy Awards. It can be done!