Campaign to save Benito the Giraffe wins him a new, more spacious home in warmer southern Mexico
by Mark Stevenson
Jan 08, 2024
3 minutes
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A campaign to save Benito the giraffe from extreme temperatures and a small enclosure in Mexico’s arid northern border city of Ciudad Juarez has finally paid off, with officials promising to move him to a more spacious animal park 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) to the south.
Benito arrived in Ciudad Juarez, which is across the border from , , in May 2023 as a 3-year-old, and since then has had to put up with
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