The giraffe is an African icon recognized and loved by people all over the world. But wild giraffes are in trouble. Their natural savanna habitat is being lost as it is converted into farms and houses, and the trees they need for food are being chopped down for fuel. They're also being hunted illegally for their meat. The giraffe is the national animal of Tanzania. So we at the Wild Nature Institute and our partners are waging a giraffe national pride campaign to raise awareness and organize community efforts for giraffes and natural resource conservation here in Tanzania. As part of our giraffe pride campaign, we created giraffe themed educational materials for Tanzanian school children. These materials used giraffe to teach science, math, reading, geography, even language. They also facilitate discussions about the issues people in wildlife are facing and how people can get organized to help themselves and wildlife to thrive. This is an illustrated activity book for little kids written in Swahili. It uses giraffe and other African wildlife as characters to teach reading, vocabulary, counting, and other skills. This is a beautiful poster for older children and adults and it describes the amazing anatomy and behavior of giraffes. And this is Juma the giraffe, a story book about a young giraffe who discovers that every individual is unique and he also learns how giraffes are special in the animal kingdom. We're distributing these books and posters to thousands of Tanzanian school children and we're also hosting teachers workshops to share primary and secondary school lesson plans and hands-on activities that we developed to accompany these materials. This workshop is important because it brings together teachers to kind of come together and see what research has done and how they can best use their research findings to educate children so that they can in the first place love the environment but then conserve the environment and wildlife. The students actually will enjoy more and they will learn a lot through pictures to help them how to keep animals particularly the giraff and how important it is. Our books and posters are teaching ecological and social lessons reinforcing Tanzanian's national pride in their magnificent wildlife and creating fun resources for children to learn about the natural world. Our goal is to inspire the next generation of Tanzanian conservationists who will ensure a green future for themselves and for giraffes.