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Interview with wildlife veterinarian, Robert Aruho, about giraffe conservation

Robert Aruho is an online MSc student in International Animal Health and a wildlife veterinarian for the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) in Kampala. He has been working for three years on a project for the conservation of the Rothschild giraffe (a subspecies of the Northern giraffe). The Student had the chance to discuss the importance […]

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Scientists discover that there are four species of giraffe, rather than just one

It has been recently discovered that there are four different species of giraffe. This comes as a surprise to scientists, as it has been long thought that there was just one species. Within this one species, it was previously accepted that there were nine sub-species. DNA taken from 190 giraffes across these sub-species has been […]