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A two-panel photograph. On the left, volunteers in sun hats lean over an outdoor table covered with large sheets of paper, sketching and writing. On the right, two workers in green overalls and hard hats load cut invasive brush onto the back of a pickup truck.

Africa & Middle East

Fifty Disney Volunteers and a Workshop on Vultures

A large group of young hikers in caps and beanies standing close together and laughing on a rocky outcrop at Medike Nature Reserve, with the wooded slopes of the Soutpansberg rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East

A Single Guided Hike Became a Hiking Club

Five cheetahs walking in a loose line across pale, tussocky grassland scattered with low green shrubs, with the rocky slopes of a Namibian mountain range rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East

The Case for Judging a Dryland by Its Cheetahs

A two-panel photograph. On the left, volunteers in sun hats lean over an outdoor table covered with large sheets of paper, sketching and writing. On the right, two workers in green overalls and hard hats load cut invasive brush onto the back of a pickup truck.

Africa & Middle East October 7, 2026

Fifty Disney Volunteers and a Workshop on Vultures

More than 50 Disney Africa employees spent a day in September at the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Conservation ...

A large group of young hikers in caps and beanies standing close together and laughing on a rocky outcrop at Medike Nature Reserve, with the wooded slopes of the Soutpansberg rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East October 7, 2026

A Single Guided Hike Became a Hiking Club

Twenty-three young people walked up to a waterfall and a wall of ancient San rock paintings at ...

Five cheetahs walking in a loose line across pale, tussocky grassland scattered with low green shrubs, with the rocky slopes of a Namibian mountain range rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East October 7, 2026

The Case for Judging a Dryland by Its Cheetahs

If you want to know whether a dryland is healthy, count the cheetahs on it. That was ...

Ramon, a young green sea turtle missing his left front flipper, swims just below the surface of deep blue open water shortly after release, his silhouette reflected in the underside of the surface above him.

Africa & Middle East October 6, 2026

Eight Turtles Out of Plastic Bags, One a Flipper Short

A hawksbill sea turtle lies head-down in a shallow body pit she has dug in pale coral sand on Ile Plate, her dark patterned carapace filling the frame, low green vegetation behind her.

Africa & Middle East October 6, 2026

A Hawksbill Dug for Three Hours to Find the Right Spot

A tiger lies in dappled shade on a bank of red earth at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, forepaws resting on a rock, head turned to one side, dry branches behind it.

Africa & Middle East October 6, 2026

The R27 Ticket Worked, So Pretoria Zoo Is Doing It Again

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

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

Promotional artwork for Hoots and Howls showing the event name in tall carved lettering across a bright green moon, with two white owls perched on the first word, a skeletal dinosaur standing at the right edge, a bare tree and a hanging spider at the left, and the text OCTOBER 10-11, 17-18, 24-25, 31 and 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. below, all set inside a dark purple border.

Events

Birmingham Zoo Put Halloween in Daylight

Two black howler monkeys sit side by side on a thick horizontal branch, the one on the left with solid black fur leaning forward over the branch, the one on the right with shaggy golden-tan fur resting on folded limbs, with green leaves overhead and out-of-focus foliage behind them.

Events

Phoenix Zoo Spent a Month on Latin America

A young child in a black costume with white gloves stands on a red carpet between two costumed characters in long gowns, one blue and white and one pink, in front of a painted storybook castle backdrop, while an adult in an orange shirt photographs them with a phone beside a Boo at the Zoo character meet and greet sign.

Events

Nashville Zoo Keeps the Tigers Out Until 8:30

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 two-panel photograph. On the left, volunteers in sun hats lean over an outdoor table covered with large sheets of paper, sketching and writing. On the right, two workers in green overalls and hard hats load cut invasive brush onto the back of a pickup truck.

Africa & Middle East

Fifty Disney Volunteers and a Workshop on Vultures

A large group of young hikers in caps and beanies standing close together and laughing on a rocky outcrop at Medike Nature Reserve, with the wooded slopes of the Soutpansberg rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East

A Single Guided Hike Became a Hiking Club

Five cheetahs walking in a loose line across pale, tussocky grassland scattered with low green shrubs, with the rocky slopes of a Namibian mountain range rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East

The Case for Judging a Dryland by Its Cheetahs

Ramon, a young green sea turtle missing his left front flipper, swims just below the surface of deep blue open water shortly after release, his silhouette reflected in the underside of the surface above him.

Africa & Middle East

Eight Turtles Out of Plastic Bags, One a Flipper Short

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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