This is no ordinary geocaching trading item!

Giraffe (the Trackable) is a Travel Bug Dog Tag Travel Bug, traveling from geocache to geocache on a very specific mission.

If you do not intend to log your visit on the Geocaching.com web site, please DO NOT TAKE THIS ITEM. Its travels and its progress requires you to log that it is being taken from this geocache. You will also need to log when you place it in another geocache. It's easy!

If you are willing to log your part of this Trackable's journey and place it in another geocache as soon as possible (after you log your find), grab it from this geocache.

My Current Goal:

To visit unique trees, and especially caches that require tree climbing.  You see, we giraffes like to be high up in the trees, and we get SO excited when we find one of your caches there, too!  (It's REALLY hard for us to find those "nanos" in sign posts or pill bottles in guardrails!)

Since I need lots of room to roam, please keep me moving.  Someday, maybe I'll even be able to visit my ancestoral home in Northern Africa!  That is where we Kordofan giraffes live, but we are shrinking in numbers rapidly.  Although not as endangered as some of our cousins (with populations as low as 200 for the West Africa giraffes), we are prized for our tails, our pelts and our meat.  Although we do have natural enemies, our greatest enemy, and greatest protectors, are humans.  As our natural habitats are destroyed, we are forced into smaller areas, and are therefore easier to track, for protection, or for destruction.

Please, help protect me as I travel!