Poachers kill Kenya’s white giraffes
Kenya’s conservancy was thrown into bewilderment when two white giraffes were killed by poachers.
A statement by the Hirola Community Conservancy, on Tuesday, said the bodies of the two giraffes were found by locals ‘in a skeletal state after being killed by armed poachers’ in Garissa in easternThe conservancy added that their deaths leave just one remaining white giraffe alive in the world.According to the conservancy, the rare animals had a condition called leucism, resulting in the partial loss of the giraffes’ pigmentation.
“We are the only community in the world who are custodians of the white giraffe,” Mohammed Ahmednoor, manager of the conservancy, said in a report by“The killing is a blow to tremendous steps taken by the community to conserve rare and unique species and a wakeup call for continued support to conservation efforts.”
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