Well we’ve gone and bloody done it, haven’t we. These poor defenceless animals that I’m still not too sure where they came from are now on a watch list because their numbers have dropped too low.
According to experts, the giraffe population has declined 40% in the last 30 years, as human population in Africa grows. It’s such a substantial drop that the International Unions for the Conservation of Nature (ICUN) has elevated the species from ‘least concern’ to ‘vulnerable’ on their 2016 Red List.
Look at them. So pure.
It’s all because humankind has been so happily destroying their habitats, so god damn we should be ashamed of ourselves. We’ve taken away their homes and their food and now unless we do something, we’re going to lose these magnificent, long-necked, oddly-spotted, seriously-what-the-fuck-did-you-evolve-fom beasts.
The ICUN has also clocked a whole bunch of new bird species – 742 in fact. But that’s not necessarily a good thing for the feathered kingdom, considering 11 of those newly-registered species are already considered extinct.
But seriously, giraffes. What the fuck. Imagine living in a world where kids don’t know what a giraffe is, or don’t have the luxury of watching their weird-ass long tongues wrap themselves around a carrot at the zoo.
Bebe, I’m so sorry we’ve failed you.
Why does this year have to be the bearer of such terrible, terrible news.
Source: ICUN.
Photo: Getty/Federico Gambarini.
