BP GEOGRAPHIC

“And the wind laughed, and the wind laughed through the trees… Come with me I’m going back, I’m going back to East Africa.” (Phil Collins)

The Giraffe Centre is a wildlife conservation facility located in Lang’ata near Nairobi, Kenya. It was established to protect the vulnerable Rothschild giraffe, that is found only in the grasslands of East Africa.

In 1979 the Giraffe Centre was started by Jock Leslie Melville, the Kenyan grandson of a Scottish Earl, when he and his wife captured two baby giraffe to start a programme of breeding giraffe on their Lang’ata property, site of the present centre.

Since then the programme has had huge success, resulting in the introduction of several breeding pairs of Rothschild giraffe into Kenyan national parks.

There is a parking area nearby from which we walked to the centre. There I got to know some very kind giraffes.

What’s more, the important question whether giraffes are good at kissing is hereby answered.