Giraffes are poached for their meat in many regions of Africa — as well as for their pelts, bones, hair and tails — by hunters and trappers wielding snares, guns and other weapons. Giraffe hair is ...

Fashionable magazines promoted interior designs using giraffe-based colours and patterns. Women wore their hair piled up high “à la giraffe”. The Camelopard, or A New Hobby (1827) by satirist ...

Trade with the U.S. is not the main threat to the declining giraffe population, FWS officials noted, but it is a contributing factor. Additionally, giraffes' hair, tails and "use in traditional ...