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Giraffe extinction : using science and technology to save the gentle giants /

The survival of giraffes in the wild in threatened. Between 1985 and 2015, the overall population of giraffes in the wild has plummeted by forty percent. Anderson shows how climate change, illegal hunting, wars, habitat loss and habitat fragmentation are the main threats to their survival, and sugge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Tanya (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2020]
Subjects:
Giraffe > Conservation > Juvenile literature.
Endangered species > Conservation > Juvenile literature.
Giraffe > Conservation.
Endangered species > Conservation.
Young adult literature.
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Summary:The survival of giraffes in the wild in threatened. Between 1985 and 2015, the overall population of giraffes in the wild has plummeted by forty percent. Anderson shows how climate change, illegal hunting, wars, habitat loss and habitat fragmentation are the main threats to their survival, and suggests ways that readers can alert their community to the dangers facing Earth's tallest creature.
Physical Description:128 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781541532380
1541532384