It is the last remaining specimen in the world, which is why it has been equipped with a GPS device that can monitor its position
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
A GPS device to trace its path and to know if it is still alive. The last known white giraffe in the world received a tracking device. This was made known by the Ishaqbini Community Conservancy.
The association explained that a male giraffe with a rare genetic trait called leucism was involved in this desperate conservation effort. The latter is similar to albinism, it makes the coat of animals white by exposing them more to predators, but unlike albinism it does not make the eyes red.
Unfortunately, these very rare creatures are also easy prey for hunters and poachers. Last March, a white giraffe mother and her cub were killed in Kenya. They were believed to be the last specimens in the world but recently the existence of another male with leucism emerged in eastern Kenya. So the Ishaqbini Community Conservancy acted quickly in an attempt to safeguard it.
The only white female giraffe in the world killed by poachers along with her cub in Kenya
A small GPS tracking device has been applied to him to protect him from poachers as he grazes in the arid Kenyan savannah near the Somali border. The animal is now only after the other two specimens have been killed.
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Now the GPS tracking device, connected to one of the giraffe's horns, will ring every hour to update the wildlife rangers on its location.
We hope that the animal can be protected and sheltered from poachers.
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Sources of reference: AP
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