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Giraffes are in trouble – the US Endangered Species Act can help

  • Written by Federico Cheever, Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources Law, University of Denver
imageA little protection over here, please?AP Photo/Harry Hamburg

On April 19 of this year, five major wildlife protection groups petitioned the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to list the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) as an endangered species. As the petition asserted, “the giraffe has suffered a major reduction in population size...

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