Ongata Rongai, Kenya
Giraffe Centre
The Giraffe Centre is a wildlife conservation facility located in Lang'ata, approximately 20 kilometres from the centre of Nairobi, Kenya. It was established to protect the vulnerable Rothschild's giraffe, that is found only in the grasslands of East Africa. In 1979, the Giraffe Centre, a nature sanctuary for visiting and including wildlife conservation education for urban school children, was started by Jock Leslie Melville, the Kenyan grandson of a Scottish Earl, when he and his wife Betty captured two baby giraffe to start a programme of breeding giraffe on their Lang'ata property, site of the present Centre.
- City
- Ongata Rongai
- Country
- Kenya
- Category
- Park
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
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