Eight endangered giraffes trapped on a shrinking island in the middle of a flooding lake is peril enough, but the water was infested with crocodiles.
Racing into action were conservationists, government officials, and local community members of Ruko Community Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya to try and construct a “giraffe-raft” in order to ferry them across the lake to safety on higher ground.
Making it ever more urgent, the stranded giraffes were of the endangered Rothschild’s subspecies, numbering only 1,600 animals left in the wild.
Longicharo Island in Lake Baringo wasn’t always an island, but rather a peninsula that split apart after years of intense flooding. The giraffes arrived in 2011, brought by park rangers who believed it was a danger-free place. They kept them fed and healthy, traveling the river by boat.
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