In 1997 TARA first recorded the big giraffes at Dabous in Niger - a 7,000 year old life-size engraving of two giraffes subsequently recognized internationally as a masterpiece of prehistoric art. In 1999, with the help of world rock art authority Jean Clottes and a team of experts from France TARA arranged for the panel to be molded and a life-size cast of the engravings was subsequently presented to the Niger government while other casts have since been exhibited internationally. Following a successful application by TARA in the late 1990s, the site was also listed on the World Monument Fund's 2000 Watchlist of the World's 100 Most Endangered Sites. TARA now funds the protection of the site and, funded by WMF, has prepared a conservation project for its future.

In 2001, TARA recorded an even larger set of giraffes in Algeria, which were so large they could not be photographed in a single image. Pioneering techniques in photogrammetry allowed a composite image of the enormous giraffes to be assembled.