Celebrating world giraffe day with the Houston Zoo

We're back now on gma. Yeah, we're kicking off our zooming with zoo series will feature animals all summer long look this is me this is in Africa outside in Kenya. Yeah, at the giraffe center feeding drafts, I love to wrap that you're at was like don't be shady with this next. Yeah, so this morning first we're going to go to the Houston zoo to celebrate World Giraffe Day check this out. It's a towering celebration of the longest swaying necked animal. World Giraffe Day. The day marking the longest of the year honoring the tallest mammal on the planet initiated by the draft conservation Foundation 10 years ago, bringing awareness to the challenges, the marvelous creature faces in the wild over the past 35 years draft numbers have decreased by nearly 30% in regions once considered prime habitats their numbers have dropped by up to 95%. And that Houston zoo, they're part of the celebration and initiative to help save drafts in Africa prioritizing fun and education for all serving up a tall order for fun. Okay, so we're so into the draft right there may think and Heather Johnson so graceful and beautiful. Heather J Heather Johnson so graceful and beautiful from the Houston zoo joins us now with some friends there in the background there Heather we're hoping that they come over you guys are celebrating a draft day why is this so important for the species. Yeah, so as you just kind of mentioned you're out there now an endangered animal which a lot of people don't realize that this is so common when you come to a zoo. The celebrating World Draft Day really helped us get the education and awareness out there that these really gentle giant are facing some pretty big threat out there in the wild. So we're actually seeing one walking towards the camera just maybe as we look at these drafts here behind you tell us about them and your newest addition Tino. Yeah, so fingers crossed they come up they are on baby watch right now as you mentioned we have a brand new tiny addition his name is you know, he's almost 7 weeks old now he's a very cute very fun addition to our herd and you can see all the adults behind me taking their turn walking over him making sure he's safe out there in the yard. I was so sweet they're almost like dinosaurs is just amazing hey it's going to be in the 90's in Houston so tell us how do drafts keep cool in this extreme heat. Yeah, the draft have almost a built-in air conditioning system underneath each one of those unique into the individual box that draft have the collection of blood vessels and what that does is help keep the draft really nice and cool even when it was in temperatures here in the Houston area that is good to know and how can people get involved and help out at home. Yeah, so if you're here in the Houston area a really easy way that you can help out draft it simply by coming to the Houston do a portion of every single ticket that we felt goes right back to our conservation partners are actively working in Kenya every single day to help save wild that I draft if you're anywhere else in the world. Don't come down and pay us a visit that helped out as well. We also recommend checking out our conservation partners website the Somali draft project is a lot of educational information on there about how you can help a draft while you're at home as well good information and Kenya with them inside draft that's exactly where I was with the with the draft video we showed earlier, thank you so much Heather, we love your energy how we do and the mystical.