Impact: There are over families living in the Westgate Conservancy. Conservation fees contribute to the daily running costs of the conservancy and wildlife management, as well as providing clean water, building schools and maintaining dirt roads. Seventy-five percent of the staff were also recruited from the local villages. Through their scholarship program, Sasaab supports three high-achieving females from the local community attend secondary boarding schools.
The Safari Collection is committed to its local communities in which it operates. Each year the Safari Collection runs week-long clinics all over in Kenya and recently has run dental clinics in the Masai Mara communities providing free dental care and basic medical services to those in need.
Stay up to date on all our online content by following us on Facebook and Twitter. Contact Search Menu. Start Planning Your Trip. Their tongues are about 18 inches long, and they are very powerful. They can use them to wrap around things like we do with our fingers and then draw them to them mouth to feed on them. While these giraffes do have a home range, they continue to move along looking for food. Reproduction can occur with these giraffes when they are about five years of age.
The females tend to mate years sooner than the males. This is because the males have to prove among each other who is the strongest in order to be able to mate. As long as their basic needs are met they can take part in it all year long. The period of gestation is from 14 to 16 months. They are known to only give birth to one calf at a time. Many experts have found evidence to suggest this particular species of giraffe will mate with others. With such limited numbers of them remaining it is important for them to be mating within their own species.
There are specific breeding plans in place in various captivity locations to help with this situation. The females will nurse the young for the first year of life. They are very good at caring for their young. They are affectionate and use lots of non-verbal communication to encourage them in a variety of ways.
These giraffes have quite a few predators that they need to be concerned about. In the wild they consist of hyenas, lions, and leopards. Generally, these predators will take down the young and the sick because full grown adults are too much of a risk. They can easily injure or kill such predators with the use of their legs. The mothers keep the young from the rest of the herd for the first month or so. Poaching of the Nubian Giraffe continues to be a very serious problem in Kenya.
Thrill seeking hunters from around the world are willing to pay lots of money to be taken on a guided hunt for one. As their numbers dwindle the urgency many of these people have in order to get one before they are gone increases. The future for the Rothschild Giraffe is in serious jeopardy at this time.
Today there are only hundreds of them left. Cart 0. Nubian Giraffe. Their diet includes leaves, stems flowers and fruit. Males can eat up to kg of leaves in a day. Habitat loss — deforestation, land use conversion mainly for agriculture , human population growth. Conservation measures include habitat protection, law enforcement and community based conservation initiatives.
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