The Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF) reported a newborn giraffe calf in northwestern Namibia. The mother was pregnant when GCF and the SCIONA project fitted solar-powered GPS satellite tracking devices on seven giraffes in July 2019. GCF and SCIONA are working together to assess the possibility of re-introducing Angolan giraffe in Iona National Park, where they went locally extinct during the civil war. As the Namibian giraffe population increases, so do the chances of a future translocation, making this a conservation success.

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Author(s): Jackson Hamutenya and Vera De Cauwer