“…For these individually recognizable species, remotely triggered camera traps can be used to monitor the elusive okapi (Nixon & Lusenge, ), which is otherwise hard to directly observe and uses unreliable dung‐based survey methods, and photographic surveys can provide useful information on giraffe population size and demography (Suraud et al ., ). Noninvasive genetic approaches have already demonstrated potential to study the distribution and reproductive behaviour of the okapi (Stanton et al ., , ) and giraffe (Fennessy et al ., ; Bock et al ., ), and could be explored further. Accepting that the popularity and profile of other flagship taxa such as elephant, rhino, big cats and great apes will continue to attract a disproportionate amount of conservation attention and funding, we should also collaborate for example to adapt monitoring of these other taxa to include giraffids as well.…”