Giraffes facing extinction

That giraffes are a declining species should be no surprise to anyone who is interested in wildlife. These statuesque animals are facing all the problems many of the other animals in Africa face, habitat loss and human predation. In more recent times shockingly the tails of giraffe have become a trophy item which really makes you wonder at the extent of human persecution, to kill such an amazing and huge animal just for it's tail is really tragic I think. These animals are perhaps not as studied as some of the other more well known species facing extinction such as big cats and rhino but just as worthy. In just 15 years populations of giraffe have dropped from 140,000 to just 80,000 and just 150 years ago there were millions of them. Let's not allow giraffes to go the same way of the rhino, big cats, elephants and the myriad of other animals across the globe disappearing because they can't compete with us to survive.