Rescuers from 3 different conservation groups are sticking their necks out for 8 giraffes that have been stranded on an island in Kenya … and 2 have already made it back to safety.
Here’s what’s happening — the poor Rothschild’s giraffes got trapped on an island in Lake Baringo due to rising water levels flooding it … which separated them from the resources they need to survive.
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In order to save them, the Kenya Wildlife Service, a U.S. nonprofit called Save Giraffes Now and an African conservation org called the Northern Rangelands Trust have combined their efforts in an unusual rescue mission … using a barge built for a giraffe to float them back to the mainland one at a time.
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