{
  "title": "Giraffe population by species: June 2025 snapshot",
  "compiledBy": "The Last Giraffe",
  "compiledOn": "2026-09-06",
  "explanation": "https://thelastgiraffe.org/articles/how-many-giraffes-are-left/",
  "source": {
    "title": "State of Giraffe 2025: An update from the Giraffe Africa Database (GAD)",
    "authors": "Marneweck CJ and colleagues (editors)",
    "publisher": "Giraffe Conservation Foundation",
    "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.15688798",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15688798",
    "location": "Table 1, printed page vii, June 2025"
  },
  "scope": "The four species totals in the source summary; excludes separately reported extralimital populations and is not a worldwide census including zoos.",
  "limitations": [
    "Estimates collated from multiple surveys and sources, not a simultaneous count or live population tracker.",
    "Ranges reproduce the source table's reported ranges; do not interpret them as uniform 95% confidence intervals or sum them into a joint interval.",
    "A change from an earlier estimate can reflect survey coverage and methods as well as real population change.",
    "The compilation date does not change the underlying data period."
  ],
  "calculation": "sharePercent = estimate / 140701 * 100, rounded to one decimal place",
  "species": [
    { "name": "Southern giraffe", "scientificName": "Giraffa giraffa", "estimate": 68837, "reportedRange": [51973, 90313], "sharePercent": 48.9 },
    { "name": "Masai giraffe", "scientificName": "Giraffa tippelskirchi", "estimate": 43926, "reportedRange": [42874, 55269], "sharePercent": 31.2 },
    { "name": "Reticulated giraffe", "scientificName": "Giraffa reticulata", "estimate": 20901, "reportedRange": [20574, 33045], "sharePercent": 14.9 },
    { "name": "Northern giraffe", "scientificName": "Giraffa camelopardalis", "estimate": 7037, "reportedRange": [5324, 9011], "sharePercent": 5.0 }
  ],
  "total": 140701
}