The countdown is on — World Okapi Day is just over one week away! On October 18, join us in celebrating and protecting the okapi by: 🌿 Donating to support forest protection and ranger programs 💚 Hosting a small fundraiser or awareness event 📸 Sharing your okapi pride online to inspire others Together, we can keep the okapi’s home — the Congo rainforest — safe and thriving. | Okapi Conservation Project

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Okapi typically eat between 40-65 pounds of food per day! They eat various leaves, twigs, and fruits, but did you know that okapi are also known to eat clay? Clay provides additional nutrients to the okapi diet. For example, the reddish clay found throughout the Ituri Forest habitat in the Democratic Republic of Congo provides okapi with essential minerals and salts. This lovely female feeding in the forest is pregnant. Expecting mothers have about a 50% increase in food for their diet since the