article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Five years ago, Rebecca Francis' posed for a photo while lying next to a dead giraffe.
article_snippet.sent: (The locals) showed me this beautiful old bull giraffe that was wandering all alone.
article_snippet.sent: They asked me if I would preserve this beautiful old bull giraffe that was wandering all alone by providing all the locals with food and other means of survival.
article_snippet.sent: According to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, there are about 80,000 giraffes in Africa, a decline of 60,000 in the past 15 years.
highlights_snippet.sent: Francis, a hunter, said a giraffe was "close to death" and became food for locals .