Okapi – Forest Giraffe of the Congo Added to IUCN’S Endangered Species List

Okapi in Forest in DR Congo

Jacksonville, FL (November 26, 2013) — The Okapi Conservation Project today announces that okapi (Okapia johnstoni) have officially been reclassified as ‘Endangered’ in the newly released International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.  Following a reassessment led by the Congolese nature conservation agency (ICCN) and partners including the Zoological Society of London, the Okapi Conservation Project, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Frankfurt Zoological Society, the okapi moves up two rungs from its original Red List classification of “Near Threatened” to “Endangered”.  To read the entire press release on the reclassification, click here.