The Trump administration will look into officially listing giraffes as an endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces.
The Trump administration will look into officially listing giraffes as an endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week.
Conservation groups like The Humane Society of the United States and Center for Biological Diversity filed the petition and subsequent lawsuit to force the government to move on the determination. They say giraffes are being illegally hunted for meat and trophies that are imported back to the United States.
The largest international group focused on species conservation, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, listed giraffes as "threatened" in 2016 because the population declined an estimated 40 percent in 30 years. There were about 97,500 giraffes identified across Africa in 2015. The Trump administration controversially withdrew broad bans on the imports last year, but President Donald Trump quickly put the decision on hold amid public outrage.
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