The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Giraffa camelopardalis

 – Lower Risk Conservation Dependent

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: MAMMALIA
Order: ARTIODACTYLA
Family: GIRAFFIDAE
Scientific Name: Giraffa camelopardalis
Species Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name/s:
EnglishGIRAFFE

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: LR/cd    ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations: Needs updating
Assessor/s: Antelope Specialist Group

Geographic Range

Countries: Native:

Angola; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Kenya; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Somalia; South Africa; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe


Introduced:

Rwanda


Regionally extinct:

Guinea; Mauritania; Senegal


Possibly extinct regionally:

Mali; Mozambique

Population

Population Trend: Stable

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial
List of Habitats:
2.1Savanna - Dry
4.5Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry

Threats

List of Threats:
1Habitat Loss/Degradation (human induced) (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

East, R. (compiler) 1999. African Antelope Database 1998. IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group.


Citation: Antelope Specialist Group 1996. Giraffa camelopardalis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 September 2008.
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