World Giraffe Week 2025

This year's World Giraffe Week, held from 16 to 21 June, 2025 in Tanzania and Kenya was a resounding success. The theme this year was the critical relationship between giraffes and trees. Wild Nature Institute (in the Tarangire region, Tanzania) partnered with Grumeti Fund in western Serengeti Tanzania; Eden Thriving in Naivasha Kenya; and Somali Giraffe Project near Garissa Kenya, to create giraffe/tree-themed artwork, and in some areas we held large community education events ("bonanzas"), took children to see giraffes in their local national parks or game reserves, and planted native Acacia trees to improve giraffe habitat. We also printed 400 t-shirts with the  beautiful logo for World Giraffe Week 2025, which connected all of our efforts together. 

Here are some highlights:
- 2,179 adults and 651 children from 4 regions around Kenya and Tanzania
- Total participation = more than 2,830 people
- 375 children created giraffe and tree-themed art for the Giraffe Art Necks-hibition
 -254 children visited their local national park or game reserve to see giraffes
 -3 types of giraffes seen by participants during World Giraffe Week (Masai, Reticulated, Rothschild’s)
 -Native Acacia trees planted in giraffe habitats in the Garissa region of Kenya and the Tarangire region of Tanzania

Thanks to our donors, we were able to provide the funding for park visits in Tarangire and Naivasha, community events in Tarangire, artwork supplies in Naivasha and Tarangire, tree planting in Tarangire, and the t-shirts for all 4 areas. Thanks for helping us make World Giraffe Week 2025 a resounding success in east Africa. We are already looking forward to Giraffe Week 2026!!!