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The device was positioned after two other white giraffes – a female and her young – were slaughtered by hunters in March, according to Animal Conservation Community Ishaqbini Hirola, quoted by the Associated Press.
The giraffe’s white color is the result of a rare genetic abnormality called leucism. Because it is such a rare condition, the giraffe becomes a particularly desirable target for poachers on the Kenyan savannah, near the border with Somalia.
Placed on one of the giraffe’s ciphers, the GPS device will give the animal’s position every hour in order to alert the rangers. White giraffes were first spotted in Tanzania in early 2016 and, two months later, in Kenya. In March 2020, the carcasses of two of these animals were found: the female and the calf circulated in the northeastern county of Garissa, Kenya, where the male giraffe now lives alone.
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