Distinguished by its light coloured spots, the West African giraffe once roamed in pockets across Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Benin, that is until drought and hunting decimated their numbers.<br /><br />In 1996, with just 50 left in the wild, conservationists in Niger launched a campaign to protect them from poachers.<br /><br />And as Al Jazeera's Tarek Bazley explains, their gradual return has been helped in part by a rise in tourists.
