Finished! Looks like this project is out of data at the moment!
Remember to: Mark the keypoints you can see only on the one giraffe in the center of the image facing right, Use hashtags for hidden keypoints, and Have Fun!
We added a chart of heights by age in Results.
Research
The Wild Nature Institute conducts scientific research on endangered wildlife and inspires the public to protect wild nature.
Masai giraffes live only in Tanzania and Kenya, and their numbers are falling fast. Giraffes are vulnerable to extinction due to habitat loss and illegal hunting; their numbers have declined drastically to only 90,000. Masai giraffe numbers have declined over 50% in the last few decades!
Our work helps giraffes and people to coexist.
Our giraffe conservation research is discovering where Masai giraffes are doing well, where they are not, and why. Wild Nature Institute scientists are studying wild Masai giraffes in Tanzania using each animal’s unique fur pattern as identification.
We are monitoring thousands of individual giraffes throughout their lifetimes to document births, deaths, and movements. This is the world's biggest giraffe study and one of the biggest wildlife demography studies in history, covering 25,000 square kilometers in the Tarangire Ecosystem and Serengeti Ecosystem.
Our giraffe research is urgently needed so we can provide effective protection actions in an ever more fragmented world, and ensure the future of wild giraffes and all creatures of the savanna. In addition to our scientific conservation research, we use giraffe-themed environmental education and grassroots advocacy to protect and connect areas important to Masai giraffe conservation in Tanzania and around the world. We promote giraffe conservation through our Giraffe-themed conservation education and children's books, and we support anti-poaching activities to keep giraffes safe.
These kids are enjoying our giraffe education materials and activities.
We need your help to save giraffes. In addition to helping with this measuring project.
- Donate Money or Time. Giving money and/or donating time to conservation groups like Wild Nature Institute is a great action to help giraffes. People can use their skills by providing advice, services, or goods in their personal area of expertise that can help the cause.
- Raise Awareness about the Silent Extinction of Giraffes. Speak up within your social circles, and encourage others to donate money or time to saving giraffes. You can raise awareness in your home communities by writing, speaking, and contributing to the global conversation about our planet’s climate and biodiversity crises. Use the Hashtag #standtallforgiraffe
- Plant Native Trees. Giraffes and many other species need native trees, but deforestation continues worldwide. Planting native trees helps fight the global climate crisis and helps biodiversity too!
- Support Legal Protections for Wildlife. Laws like the Endangered Species Act and other environmental laws make the world safer for wildlife and people. Call and write to your congressperson, senator, governor, and president telling them you support strong law enforcement to protect wildlife.
- We can craft a personal plan for you to become a giraffe hero. Email us at info@wildnatureinstitute.org.
Our study area in the Tarangire Ecosystem showing giraffe locations (purple dots) from our surveys in relation to protected areas (green shading), Maasai homesteads (grey dots), and towns (grey areas).