A new plan to pull the “forest giraffe” back from the brink of extinction

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Feb 23, 2016, 12:06 pm135 pts
The rare “forest giraffe,” a native of the lowland rainforests in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, faces numerous threats, including habitat loss, armed conflict, poaching, and, increasingly, the mining and oil industries. Okapi, sometimes referred to as “forest giraffes” because they are…

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