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Giraffe Centre. / -1.374469; 36.742324. The Giraffe Centre is located in Lang'ata, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the centre of Nairobi, Kenya. It was established in order to protect the vulnerable giraffe, that is found only in the grasslands of East Africa . In 1979, the Giraffe Center, a nature sanctuary for visiting and including ...
Yankari Game Reserve. / 9.7544°N 10.5103°E / 9.7544; 10.5103. Yankari Game Reserve is a large wildlife park and former National Park located in the south-central part of Bauchi State, in northeastern Nigeria. It covers an area of about 2,244 km 2 (866 sq mi) and is home to several natural warm water springs, as well as a wide variety ...
Giraffe Manor. / -1.3756; 36.7447. Giraffe Manor is a small hotel in the Lang'ata suburb of Nairobi, Kenya which, together with its associated Giraffe Centre, serves as a home to a number of endangered Rothschild's giraffes, and operates a breeding programme to reintroduce breeding pairs back into the wild to secure the future of the subspecies.
The Millennium Park is the largest public park of Abuja, [1] [2] [3] the capital of Nigeria and is located in the Maitama district of the city. The Millennium Park was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II on 4 December 2003. [4] [5] [6] It is near the former Presidential Palace close to the nucleus of presidential and administrative buildings of ...
"The way the giraffe instantly appreciates you," wrote one commenter. "Giraffes in the wild have never had this type of interaction with any other living being as high up as they are. This must ...
Linnaeus, 1758. Species. See taxonomy. Distribution of the giraffe. The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus Giraffa. It is the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant on Earth. Traditionally, giraffes have been thought of as one species, Giraffa camelopardalis, with nine subspecies.
Cameroon Ministry of Environment and the Protection of Nature. Waza National Park is a national park in the Department of Logone-et-Chari, in Far North Region, Cameroon. [1] It was founded in 1934 as a hunting reserve, and covers a total of 1,700 km 2 (660 sq mi). [2] Waza achieved national park status in 1968, and became a UNESCO biosphere ...
April 25, 2024 at 11:05 AM. Venice has become the first city in the world to charge admission for daytrippers – it is now a city of culture, cuisine and charges. Starting on Thursday 25 April ...