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A Nature Seychelles field officer in a blue shirt bending over a nesting hawksbill turtle in beach vegetation on Cousin Island, the turtle part buried in pale sand.

Africa & Middle East

Six Knitters, One Hawksbill, and Cousin Island

Two young orphaned elephants coated in red Tsavo dust, one standing on a mound of red earth beside acacia scrub and one lying down in the dust beside her.

Africa & Middle East

Speared at Two, Swimming at Three: the Rescue of Sibu

Four downy grey-brown African penguin chicks sitting together on a pale pink towel in an indoor nursery at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, one wearing an orange flipper tag.

Africa & Middle East

Four African Penguin Chicks Hatch Inland, at Pretoria

A Nature Seychelles field officer in a blue shirt bending over a nesting hawksbill turtle in beach vegetation on Cousin Island, the turtle part buried in pale sand.

Africa & Middle East October 9, 2026

Six Knitters, One Hawksbill, and Cousin Island

Nature Seychelles has spent decades counting hawksbill turtles coming ashore on Cousin Island Special Reserve. This autumn ...

Two young orphaned elephants coated in red Tsavo dust, one standing on a mound of red earth beside acacia scrub and one lying down in the dust beside her.

Africa & Middle East October 9, 2026

Speared at Two, Swimming at Three: the Rescue of Sibu

The Kenya Wildlife Service found her on January 19, 2026, near Roaring Rocks in Tsavo West National ...

Four downy grey-brown African penguin chicks sitting together on a pale pink towel in an indoor nursery at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, one wearing an orange flipper tag.

Africa & Middle East October 9, 2026

Four African Penguin Chicks Hatch Inland, at Pretoria

Four African penguin chicks have hatched at South Africa’s National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, and a fifth ...

Visitors walk at night beneath the lit ZooLights entrance banner at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, flanked by a white light sculpture of an elephant and a green one of a snake.

Events October 9, 2026

ZooLights Returns Nov. 20. The Animals Get the Night Off

Three Amur tiger cubs cross sunlit rock ledges in their outdoor habitat at the Louisville Zoo, two in the foreground and one above them.

North America October 8, 2026

Louisville’s First Tiger Cubs in 22 Years Have Set Hours

Eleven Saint Louis Zoo animal care and veterinary staff stand together outside a protected contact barrier, with an adult Asian elephant and the calf Jet behind the bars.

Conservation Projects October 8, 2026

Jet’s Borrowed Immunity Is Fading. A Vaccine Buys Him Time

Zoo Babies

Three Amur tiger cubs cross sunlit rock ledges in their outdoor habitat at the Louisville Zoo, two in the foreground and one above them.

North America October 8, 2026

Louisville’s First Tiger Cubs in 22 Years Have Set Hours

The Louisville Zoo’s three Amur tiger cubs now have a posted schedule. Frankie, Masha and Mira are ...

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 ...

North & South American News

Visitors walk at night beneath the lit ZooLights entrance banner at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, flanked by a white light sculpture of an elephant and a green one of a snake.

Events

ZooLights Returns Nov. 20. The Animals Get the Night Off

Three Amur tiger cubs cross sunlit rock ledges in their outdoor habitat at the Louisville Zoo, two in the foreground and one above them.

North America

Louisville’s First Tiger Cubs in 22 Years Have Set Hours

Eleven Saint Louis Zoo animal care and veterinary staff stand together outside a protected contact barrier, with an adult Asian elephant and the calf Jet behind the bars.

Conservation Projects

Jet’s Borrowed Immunity Is Fading. A Vaccine Buys Him Time

Promotional artwork for Boo at the Zoo reading BOO in large orange letters wrapped in cobwebs above the words at the Zoo in white, on a purple twilight landscape with a crescent moon behind a bare tree, a Ferris wheel at the right, two carved jack-o-lanterns in the foreground, one of them wearing a witch hat, and pale silhouettes of a camel, an anteater, a monkey and a hanging primate across the scene, with the Santa Ana Parks and Recreation and Santa Ana Zoo logos at lower left.

Events

Boo at the Zoo Turns 35 in Santa Ana

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

A Nature Seychelles field officer in a blue shirt bending over a nesting hawksbill turtle in beach vegetation on Cousin Island, the turtle part buried in pale sand.

Africa & Middle East

Six Knitters, One Hawksbill, and Cousin Island

Two young orphaned elephants coated in red Tsavo dust, one standing on a mound of red earth beside acacia scrub and one lying down in the dust beside her.

Africa & Middle East

Speared at Two, Swimming at Three: the Rescue of Sibu

Four downy grey-brown African penguin chicks sitting together on a pale pink towel in an indoor nursery at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, one wearing an orange flipper tag.

Africa & Middle East

Four African Penguin Chicks Hatch Inland, at Pretoria

A single African wild dog standing alone on bare ground in dry golden bush, head turned back over its shoulder, with no other dogs in sight.

Africa & Middle East

A Wild Dog Walked 4,126 Kilometers and Found No Mate

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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