Giraffe Stephanie Fennessy describe what it takes to keep these little-known gentle giants safe.Why did the giraffes cross the Nile? To save their skins! It may sound implausible, but we're not being flippant. The extraordinary spectacle of these 5m-tall animals traversing the continent's mightiest river by boat was one of the most important, daring and unusual giraffe-conservation initiatives of recent years.Operation Twiga took place in January in Uganda's beautiful Murchison Falls National Park. It was filmed for a BBC Natural World documentary following a year in the life of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF), a small organisation based in Namibia, for which we work. As you can probably imagine, the logistics of translocating a herd of 18 wild giraffes along rough, potholed tracks and across a vast waterway was mind-boggling, but the intervention didn't happen a day too soon.
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