#1 GIRAFFE RESERVE KOURE, NIGER
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ASGN: Pose de colliers émetteurs sur les girafes de Koure (Niger)
ASGN: Pose de colliers émetteurs sur les girafes de Koure (Niger)
Giraffe herd at Koure, Niger
Walking with one of the herd of the last self-sustaining West African Giraffe at the Koure Biosphere Reserve, Niger
Niger - Koure Giraffes
About an hour drive north from Niamey takes you to the Koure Giraffe Conservation Area - the last remaining spot where you can see the West African Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis peralta), the only giraffe in West Africa and the last giraffe species I haven’t seen. It differs from other species by a slightly smaller size and much lighter coloration. There are about 300 giraffes in the reserve (that’s the entire global population of the species), but finding them isn’t easy - we basically spent 2 hours 4WD-ing across desert hopelessly trying to find one or two. When I almost gave up, we came across a couple, and then continued on foot to a large group of about 20 (I think I got 14 in one shot at one point). The animals are indifferent to humans and you can stand within 10-20 feet without them moving or caring. Beautiful animals!
Visite des giraffes de Kouré Niger
Koure - Hard To Earn
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Mix: Koure (except track 5, recorded/mixed @MD Recording Studio)
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Niger's Giraffes Came Back From Extinction. Now They're Poaching People’s Food. (HBO)
In the last three decades, 40 percent of the world’s giraffe population has died. But Niger, the third poorest country in the world, has remarkably reversed the trend — giving a second chance to Africa’s most threatened giraffe subspecies.
The West African giraffe once inhabited an area from the coast in Senegal to Lake Chad, deep in North Africa’s interior. But by 1996, drought, poaching, and habitat loss from growing human and livestock populations brought the population crashing down to near 50; the last giraffes were in southern Niger.
International NGO’s pressed Niger to save the giraffe — which adopted a conservation strategy, put in strict laws to preserve habitat, and placed big penalties for poaching. The new rules, in addition to the fact that no natural predators live near the current reserve, have helped the population grow by a factor of 12 — to more than 600 giraffes today.
But successful conservation has come with a new set of challenges.
Nearby the Kouré Giraffe Zone, local subsistence farmers are angry that giraffes are wreaking havoc on their farms. The reserve simply isn’t large enough to contain, or feed, the fast-growing population.
So ecotourism guides like Adamou Djogo, who help manage the reserve, also set up town halls for villagers once a month. He hears out their concerns, and in turn, hopes to help them understand why the giraffes are important for Niger’s development in the long run.
“People will are quick to say, the giraffes are doing this or that. Right away they think about the problems, but they don’t think about the advantages.” Djogo told VICE News. “We know that the giraffe is our national heritage — and even a global one.”
Last December, the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, along with Niger’s government — relocated eight giraffes to the larger Gadabedji reserve. They hope to establish a new population so that these giraffes can find a new home to thrive.
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Fears over the fate of Niger's last giraffes
Distinguished by its light coloured spots, the West African giraffe once roamed across the region.
That was before drought and poaching nearly decimated their numbers.
Niger has been trying to protect them, but now the animals face a new threat.
Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall reports from Koure Natural Reserve.
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Giraffes of Niger
These are the last wild giraffes in West Africa, they are just outside Niamey, Niger. Ces giraffes sauvages sont les derniers a l'Afrique, ils sont trouvé proche de Niamey, Niger. (2010)
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Communities join forces to protect Niger's last giraffes
West Africa's last giraffes can be found in Niger, about 50 kilometres from Niamey in the Kour¨¦ area. Only about 5-hundred remain -- and are carefully guarded by conservationists. International donors, NGOs and even community members have been roped in to protect the gentle beasts. Watchtowers have been installed so the herd's movements can be tracked around the clock. The Koure area has also been classified as a UNESCO heritage site.
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National Parks in Niger
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Aïr and Ténéré Addax Sanctuary
Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve
Dosso Reserve
Gadabedji Reserve
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Tamou Reserve
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A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of wild nature for posterity and as a symbol of national pride.
An international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on
Protected Areas, has defined National Park as its Category II type of protected areas.
While this type of national park had been proposed previously, the United States established the first public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, Yellowstone National Park, in 1872. Although Yellowstone was not officially termed a national park in its establishing law, it was always termed such in practice and is widely held to be the first and oldest national park in the world. Some would say that the first official
national park to be designated as such at its creation was Mackinac Island, legislated in 1875. Australia's Royal
National Park, established in 1879, was the world's third official national park. In 1895 ownership of Mackinac Island was transferred to the State of Michigan as a state park and national park status was consequently lost. As a result Australia's Royal National Park is by some considerations the second oldest national park now in existence.
The largest national park in the world meeting the IUCN definition is the Northeast Greenland National Park, which was established in 1974. According to the IUCN, 6,555 national parks worldwide met its criteria in 2006. IUCN is still discussing the parameters of defining a national park.
National parks are almost always open to visitors. Most national parks provide outdoor recreation and camping opportunities as well as classes designed to educate the public on the importance of conservation and the natural wonders of the land in which the national park is located.
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Giraffes under threat | Eco-at-Africa
West African giraffes in are close to extinction. But their numbers are recovering at Niger’s Kouré Reserve, where fewer giraffes are shot by poachers or farmers.
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