{"id":4738,"date":"2019-08-20T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"maasai-giraffes-face-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/20\/maasai-giraffes-face-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Maasai Giraffes Face Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By KENNEDY SENELWA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Masai giraffes,\npredominantly found in Kenya and Tanzania, are now on the global Red List of\nendangered species facing extinction, according to the International Union for\nConservation of Nature Scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IUCN said the\nspecies has declined by 49 per cent over the past three decades to the current\ncombined population of about 35,000 in Kenya and Tanzania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drop in\nnumbers is attributed to reduced habitat caused by rising human population\ndriven by a demand for land for agriculture plus the wanton illegal hunting of\nthe tall iconic animal for meat and body parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IVORY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same\ntime, Singapore has announced it will ban the domestic trade in ivory from\nSeptember 2021, shutting the door to an important end-market for poached\nelephant ivory particularly from Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ninternational trade in ivory has been banned since 1990 under the Convention on\nInternational Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), an\ninternational treaty signed by most countries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/scienceandhealth\/Masai-giraffes-face-extinction\/3073694-5240932-axnr97\/index.html\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KENNEDY SENELWA Masai giraffes, predominantly found in Kenya and Tanzania, are now on the global Red List of endangered species facing extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}