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An Asian elephant with short tusks walks across a bare earth yard beside a pool and rockwork, in front of a large two-story timber pavilion with steep shingled gables and orange and teal paintwork, where about twenty visitors watch from a shaded deck.

Conservation Projects

Cincinnati’s Elephant Trek Wins AZA’s Top Exhibit Award

Ten hikers in trail running kit stand together on wet rock holding a white flag with a red paw print reading Endangered Wildlife Trust, with a snow covered Drakensberg escarpment rising out of thick cloud behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Snow on Rhino Peak, and R1.2 Million Raised

Five members of a veterinary team stand on a forest track in front of a black painted sign reading la clinique veterinaire, with dense green rainforest behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Cameroon’s Apes Wait Days for a Blood Test

An Asian elephant with short tusks walks across a bare earth yard beside a pool and rockwork, in front of a large two-story timber pavilion with steep shingled gables and orange and teal paintwork, where about twenty visitors watch from a shaded deck.

Conservation Projects October 2, 2026

Cincinnati’s Elephant Trek Wins AZA’s Top Exhibit Award

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has won Top Honors in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ ...

Ten hikers in trail running kit stand together on wet rock holding a white flag with a red paw print reading Endangered Wildlife Trust, with a snow covered Drakensberg escarpment rising out of thick cloud behind them.

Africa & Middle East October 2, 2026

Snow on Rhino Peak, and R1.2 Million Raised

Thirty people gathered at a hotel in the Underberg in September, in cold, wet, windy weather, intending ...

Five members of a veterinary team stand on a forest track in front of a black painted sign reading la clinique veterinaire, with dense green rainforest behind them.

Africa & Middle East October 2, 2026

Cameroon’s Apes Wait Days for a Blood Test

When a gorilla at the Mefou sanctuary outside Yaounde falls ill, Ape Action Africa’s veterinarians usually know ...

A felled tree trunk lying across a muddy forest track with long strips of bark torn away, the pale wood beneath exposed, and two researchers in the green undergrowth behind it.

Africa & Middle East October 2, 2026

What Mount Elgon’s Elephants Eat When They Are Sick

Hundreds of carved pumpkins, each with a different face, set in rows across a long grass-covered bank beside a walkway, curving away into the distance under a blue sky.

Events October 2, 2026

4,200 Carved Pumpkins, and a Living Wall Set to Music

Europe October 2, 2026

Nobody Knows How to Measure a Fish’s Welfare

Zoo Babies

A capybara pup, small and reddish-brown, stands on bare ground beside tall green leaves, with the head and shoulders of its much larger mother behind it.

North America October 1, 2026

Iyari the Capybara Has a Second Pup

Iyari, the Palm Beach Zoo’s capybara, has given birth to a single pup. Mother and baby are ...

A newborn black-and-white colobus monkey with a pure white coat and a pink face looks toward the camera while held against the dense black fur of its mother.

North America October 1, 2026

Lincoln Park’s New Colobus Is Born Pure White

A black-and-white colobus monkey was born at Lincoln Park Zoo in the early hours of September 24, ...

North & South American News

An Asian elephant with short tusks walks across a bare earth yard beside a pool and rockwork, in front of a large two-story timber pavilion with steep shingled gables and orange and teal paintwork, where about twenty visitors watch from a shaded deck.

Conservation Projects

Cincinnati’s Elephant Trek Wins AZA’s Top Exhibit Award

Hundreds of carved pumpkins, each with a different face, set in rows across a long grass-covered bank beside a walkway, curving away into the distance under a blue sky.

Events

4,200 Carved Pumpkins, and a Living Wall Set to Music

A capybara pup, small and reddish-brown, stands on bare ground beside tall green leaves, with the head and shoulders of its much larger mother behind it.

North America

Iyari the Capybara Has a Second Pup

A curving paved path runs through the Wild Utah habitat between timber fencing and young trees, with a tall mesh aviary on the right and dry foothills rising behind.

Conservation Projects

Three Acres of Utah Wins a National Exhibit Award

European News

Europe

Nobody Knows How to Measure a Fish’s Welfare

A broad stone staircase of several flights rises between stone balustrades at Pairi Daiza, its steps planted with beds of red and purple foliage, framed by mature green trees with the tower of Cambron Abbey visible at the upper right.

Europe

Pairi Daiza Restores Cambron Abbey’s 1776 Staircase

A squirrel monkey with a golden-yellow back, pale face and dark cap grips a thin branch with one hand, surrounded by broad green leaves inside a planted indoor enclosure.

Europe

Nine Squirrel Monkeys Move Into Hagenbeck’s Jungle

A small restored steam locomotive with an orange buffer beam stands under steam in the open doorway of a timber engine shed at Pairi Daiza, a Belgian flag mounted beside its headlamp, with a member of staff in a blue railway uniform and cap standing on either side of it.

Europe

A 126-Year-Old Steam Engine Runs Again at Pairi Daiza

African & Middle Eastern News

Ten hikers in trail running kit stand together on wet rock holding a white flag with a red paw print reading Endangered Wildlife Trust, with a snow covered Drakensberg escarpment rising out of thick cloud behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Snow on Rhino Peak, and R1.2 Million Raised

Five members of a veterinary team stand on a forest track in front of a black painted sign reading la clinique veterinaire, with dense green rainforest behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Cameroon’s Apes Wait Days for a Blood Test

A felled tree trunk lying across a muddy forest track with long strips of bark torn away, the pale wood beneath exposed, and two researchers in the green undergrowth behind it.

Africa & Middle East

What Mount Elgon’s Elephants Eat When They Are Sick

An armadillo girdled lizard curled into a tight ring on lichen-covered rock, gripping its own spined tail in its jaws, the yellow and black markings of its throat visible and every scale raised into a point.

Africa & Middle East

Two Armored Lizards and a Pet Trade Problem

Asia & Australian News

Asia

Ten Sihek Are Going Back to Palmyra Atoll

A group of khulan, sandy-coloured wild asses, stand in green steppe grassland with open plains behind them.

Asia

Wild Asses Return to Eastern Mongolia After 65 Years

A Pallas's cat looks toward the camera, its wide flat face framed by long white whiskers and thick gray fur.

Asia

Groundbreaking Discovery: Pallas’s Cat Found on Mount Everest

A blue crane walks through open grassland, its long trailing wing feathers sweeping behind it.

Africa & Middle East

The Importance of Crane Conservation and Its Benefits for People and the Planet

Zoo Rescues

Two Red-tailed Amazons perched side by side

Conservation Projects

Zoo Visitors Gave These Parrots Somewhere to Nest

Nine parrots hatched from eggs smuggled through a Rio de Janeiro airport are now living at São Paulo Zoo. Six ...

Mr Zoo News

Two ZooTampa staff treating a manatee lying on a wooden deck

Conservation Projects

The 640 Manatees You Helped Save Without Knowing

If you have ever taken your family to ZooTampa at Lowry Park, you have already ...

Mr Zoo News

Conservation Projects

New England Aquarium Follows Its Turtles to Texas

North America

Eight Rescued Big Cats Get Root Canals in Two Days

A polar bear swims past an underwater viewing window as a young girl presses both hands to the glass and looks up at it.

Conservation Projects

Orphaned Polar Bear Cub Arrives in Winnipeg

A Kemp's ridley sea turtle rests on wet sand with a small transmitter mounted on its shell, facing the water.

Kemp’s Ridley Turtle Pancake Returns to the Atlantic

Two people in white protective coveralls and gloves examine a box turtle together in a quarantine room.

The Bronx Zoo Has Taken In 800 Trafficked Turtles

Three ocellaris clownfish swim in a pale, sparsely furnished quarantine tank.

An Aquarium Took In 500 Trafficked Animals Overnight

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