KENYA-CONSERVATION-GIRAFFES

Selma, a female Rothschild sub-species of giraffe interacts with one of their keepers, at its habitat at Nairobi's giraffe conservation centre "The Giraffe Centre" on December 21, 2016. Long term research into giraffes that only started in 2003 in Namibia revealed that giraffes have silently being going extinct, with numbers plummeting by 40 percent in the last three decades to about 97,500, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported this month. One of the sub-species is the Nubian giraffe whose populations in Ethiopia and South Sudan are estimated to have dropped from over 20,000 to just 650. / AFP / TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)