Benito the giraffe leaves extreme weather at Mexico’s border after campaign

Benito the giraffe was moved from the Central Park zoo (AP)

Benito the giraffe has left Mexico’s northern border and its extreme weather conditions for a conservation park in central Mexico – where the climate is closer to its natural habitat and is already a home to other giraffes.

The move came about after environmental groups voiced strong complaints about conditions faced by Benito at the city-run Central Park zoo in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, where weather in the summer is brutally hot and temperatures plunge during the winter.