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Seven delegates stand together at the CBD COP17 venue in Yerevan, two of them holding a certificate printed with the word Nigeria.

Africa & Middle East

$50,000 to Count the Conservation Outside Nigeria’s Parks

Events

Two Nights Left, 4.5 Tons of Candy, and a Palm Oil Rule

Two performers dressed as La Catrina at the Houston Zoo, in full calavera face paint and towering floral headdresses, one in blue and white patterned dress and one in pink, standing under oak trees hung with orange and red lanterns.

Events

Houston Zoo Builds an Ofrenda for the Animals It Has Lost

Seven delegates stand together at the CBD COP17 venue in Yerevan, two of them holding a certificate printed with the word Nigeria.

Africa & Middle East October 28, 2026

$50,000 to Count the Conservation Outside Nigeria’s Parks

Nigeria went to the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Yerevan, ...

Events October 28, 2026

Two Nights Left, 4.5 Tons of Candy, and a Palm Oil Rule

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has two nights of Boo at the Zoo left: Friday, October 30 and Saturday, ...

Two performers dressed as La Catrina at the Houston Zoo, in full calavera face paint and towering floral headdresses, one in blue and white patterned dress and one in pink, standing under oak trees hung with orange and red lanterns.

Events October 28, 2026

Houston Zoo Builds an Ofrenda for the Animals It Has Lost

Houston Zoo marks Día de los Muertos on Sunday, November 1 and Monday, November 2, and the ...

Carved wooden animals on the Birmingham Zoo carousel, including a tall giraffe with a red bridle, a spotted leopard, a zebra, an ostrich and two pale horses, under a lit wooden canopy with species names painted on the boards above.

Expansions October 28, 2026

Birmingham’s Carousel Comes Back, Endangered Species and All

Architectural rendering of the Tennessee Aquarium's planned animal hospital: a bright treatment room with staff in blue scrubs, overhead surgical lights, teal cabinetry and a glass-walled imaging suite holding a CT scanner.

Expansions October 27, 2026

A $5 Million Animal Hospital, and the Vets It Will Train

Rangers in green uniforms haul on a thick strap running to an adult elephant caked in mud and sitting in a churned mud pan, with a tractor on the dry ground behind them under a blue sky.

Africa & Middle East October 27, 2026

An Elephant and Her Calf, Stuck Fast in Drying Mud

Zoo Babies

Two young nyala calves side by side in a labeled comparison image, each with large rounded ears, a chestnut coat and fine white stripes, standing on wood-shaving bedding.

North America October 26, 2026

Como’s Nyala Became a Mother and a Grandmother in 20 Days

Como Park Zoo and Conservatory has two new nyala calves, born twenty days apart. A male, Hubert, ...

A spotted Amur leopard cub lies stretched out on a blue towel at the Potawatomi Zoo, mouth open, one front paw extended, the pale fur of his belly visible.

Conservation Projects October 23, 2026

An Amur Leopard Cub Was Born in Indiana and Hand-Raised

A male Amur leopard cub was born at the Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, Indiana on September ...

North & South American News

Events

Two Nights Left, 4.5 Tons of Candy, and a Palm Oil Rule

Two performers dressed as La Catrina at the Houston Zoo, in full calavera face paint and towering floral headdresses, one in blue and white patterned dress and one in pink, standing under oak trees hung with orange and red lanterns.

Events

Houston Zoo Builds an Ofrenda for the Animals It Has Lost

Carved wooden animals on the Birmingham Zoo carousel, including a tall giraffe with a red bridle, a spotted leopard, a zebra, an ostrich and two pale horses, under a lit wooden canopy with species names painted on the boards above.

Expansions

Birmingham’s Carousel Comes Back, Endangered Species and All

Architectural rendering of the Tennessee Aquarium's planned animal hospital: a bright treatment room with staff in blue scrubs, overhead surgical lights, teal cabinetry and a glass-walled imaging suite holding a CT scanner.

Expansions

A $5 Million Animal Hospital, and the Vets It Will Train

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

Seven delegates stand together at the CBD COP17 venue in Yerevan, two of them holding a certificate printed with the word Nigeria.

Africa & Middle East

$50,000 to Count the Conservation Outside Nigeria’s Parks

Rangers in green uniforms haul on a thick strap running to an adult elephant caked in mud and sitting in a churned mud pan, with a tractor on the dry ground behind them under a blue sky.

Africa & Middle East

An Elephant and Her Calf, Stuck Fast in Drying Mud

A caregiver in a pale T-shirt sits on the floor of a padded green-walled boma beside a young white rhino calf draped in a striped crocheted blanket, with an intravenous line running down from the ceiling above them.

Africa & Middle East

She Arrived Too Weak to Stand. Now She Weighs 99.2 kg

Two adult African elephants stand in the dust at the Ithumba stockades with a newborn calf sheltered between their legs.

Africa & Middle East

Chyulu Nannied Lulu in 2018. Now Lulu Nannies Her Calf.

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

Four manatees rest together in a green-lit rehabilitation pool, one of them noticeably paler and scarred, seen from above the waterline.

Conservation Projects

Ten Manatees Swapped Places Between Ohio and Florida

On Monday, October 12, four rescued manatees left Ohio for Florida. On Wednesday, six more flew the other way. Ten ...

Mr Zoo News

Two young spider monkeys sitting together on a branch, the smaller one leaning against the larger, in an indoor habitat at Hogle Zoo.

Conservation Projects

Confiscated at the Border, Now Climbing in Salt Lake

Two young spider monkeys who were taken from the wild and seized from traffickers at ...

Mr Zoo News

Conservation Projects

Zoo Visitors Gave These Parrots Somewhere to Nest

Conservation Projects

The 640 Manatees You Helped Save Without Knowing

An empty stretch of beach on South Padre Island under a cloudy sky, with surf breaking on the left, eroded grass-topped dunes rising on the right, and a line of pelicans flying low over the sand

Conservation Projects

New England Aquarium Follows Its Turtles to Texas

A tiger lies anesthetized on a treatment table surrounded by a dozen veterinary and dental staff in a clinic room.

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.

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

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