World Giraffe Week

Save the date: World Giraffe Week
June 17th - June 21st, 2024

If you’d like to help out with plans for World Giraffe Week, please reach out to Mary Dagg. We’re always looking for members to participate, whether that’s drawing pictures, providing photos of giraffes, creating ideas for WGW or helping with in our in-person activities. We’d love to hear from you!

World Giraffe Week 2023

That’s a wrap on another wonderful World Giraffe Week celebration! Thank you to the Toronto Zoo for hosting us on World Giraffe Day and for those who volunteered, including our Junior Giraffe Club members, to make this another successful celebration. We hope you enjoyed everything that the World Giraffe Week website had to offer. See you next year!

World Giraffe Week 2022


Thank you to everyone who was able to celebrate World Giraffe Week (WGW) 2022!! We hope you enjoyed the amazing
Giraffe Zone, which is still jam-packed
with giraffe facts and fun. We appreciate all of the hard work JGC members put into making videos for the zone - check ‘em out by clicking
here! Anne Innis Dagg was so pleased to celebrate WGW with some of our awesome Junior Giraffe Club members at the Toronto Zoo and her giraffe zookeeper friends, Jason Pootalal and Amy Gerditschke.  

What’s World Giraffe Day?

Officially, World Giraffe Day is on the longest day of the year, June 21st, celebrating the tallest animal in the world! We like to
s-t-r-e-t-c-h out the festivities into a week-long celebration!