I understand that Wikipedia is not a scholarly journal and is not thoroughly trustworthy. However —
Wikipedia has the status of Giraffe as “Least Concern” meaning that these things are not really close to extinction.
Of course, if the single species gets suddenly re-classified as 4 species then the population of each of those species would (on average) be a mere 25% of the population just yesterday, right? OMG there are practically no giraffes of species ABC left in the wild!!!!!
I hope they aren’t playing games with numbers.
I especially hope this isn’t becoming news because a young American girl recently went on a fully sanctioned hunt and lawfully shot a giraffe.
” a young American girl recently went on a fully sanctioned hunt and lawfully shot a giraffe”
Not a “Toys R Us” kid, I take it.