Michelle Riley/The HSUS

Protect giraffes from extinction!

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing all four species of giraffes under the Endangered Species Act and we need you to urge them to finalize this decision quickly to protect giraffes from extinction!

Since the 1980s, giraffe populations have dropped nearly 40% because of habitat loss, human-caused habitat changes, poaching and civil unrest in regions where these animals live. The international trade in giraffe parts puts extra pressure on giraffe populations and since the U.S. imports more giraffe products than any other country in the world, it is up to us to take steps to protect them from further decline.

Listing giraffes under the Endangered Species Act won’t solve all the problems facing giraffes, but controlling imports of their body parts will go a long way toward curbing poaching and reducing the U.S.’s outsized role in the market for giraffe products.

Please take action today and tell USFWS to act quickly to give giraffes the protections they deserve!

TAKE ACTION

Please use the form to submit a comment to USFWS urging them to finalize the proposed Endangered Species Act for giraffes rule.

This action alert is for U.S. residents. International advocates, please visit Humane Society International.

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Rachel

London

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Dear Ms. London, 

I am writing in support of the proposed Endangered Species Act for giraffes rule, which will list all four species of giraffes under the Endangered Species Act. 

Since the 1980s, giraffe populations have dropped nearly 40%—with fewer than 69,000 mature giraffes remaining in the wild— because of habitat loss, human-caused habitat changes, poaching and civil unrest in regions where these animals live. The international trade in giraffe bone carvings, skins and trophies puts extra pressure on giraffe populations, and the U.S. imports more giraffe products than any other country in the world.  

Giraffes mature slowly and only birth a few calves in their lifetimes, which means it can take a dangerously long time for populations to recover from decimation. Listing under the Endangered Species Act won’t solve all the problems facing giraffes, but controlling imports of their body parts will go a long way toward curbing poaching and reducing the U.S.’s outsized role in the market for giraffe products. 

Protections can’t come soon enough for this majestic animal, so please finalize this important rule quickly.  

Thank you.

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