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Giraffes have vanished from at least seven African countries — photographers release a book about their fate

A new photo publication featuring works by Jonathan and Angela Scott, Marcel van Oosten, Frans Lanting and other renowned photographers is devoted to the lives of giraffes in the wild. According to the book, over the past 300 years the animals have lost about 90% of their habitat and have disappeared entirely from at least seven African countries, while their numbers have declined sharply since 1985.

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Tanzania Legally Protects an Elephant Migration Corridor for the First Time

Up to a thousand elephants climb the Udzungwa Mountains to an altitude of about 2,000 meters in search of bamboo and minerals. In April 2025, the government of Tanzania designated the roughly 14-kilometer Nyerere–Udzungwa corridor as the country's first legally protected wildlife corridor. In the first 15 months, cameras recorded at least 1,400 animal crossings, 529 of them by elephants.

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