The tallest land animals in the world are declining so precipitously that they should be protected under the United States Endangered Species Act.
While giraffes are found in Africa, the proposal would restrict the import of their parts into the United States and would increase conservation funding to help the animals survive.
About 117,000 wild giraffes are left worldwide, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, down almost 30 percent from the 1980s.
The animals have vanished completely from numerous countries in West Africa.
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