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An African grass owl stands at a ground nest inside a tunnel of dense flattened grass at night, a rodent hanging from its beak, with two downy chicks visible in the shadows behind it.

Africa & Middle East

This Owl Will Not Nest in Just Any Grass

Two women stand smiling on either side of a large printed map of Namibia pinned to a wall, the map marked with green protected areas and conservancy boundaries; the woman on the left wears a black Cheetah Conservation Fund shirt and the woman on the right a green WWF shirt.

Africa & Middle East

Namibia Counts Its Big Predators

Events

How Do You Tell Six Sea Otters Apart?

An African grass owl stands at a ground nest inside a tunnel of dense flattened grass at night, a rodent hanging from its beak, with two downy chicks visible in the shadows behind it.

Africa & Middle East September 27, 2026

This Owl Will Not Nest in Just Any Grass

An African grass owl will not nest in just any grass. Across eight years of fieldwork in ...

Two women stand smiling on either side of a large printed map of Namibia pinned to a wall, the map marked with green protected areas and conservancy boundaries; the woman on the left wears a black Cheetah Conservation Fund shirt and the woman on the right a green WWF shirt.

Africa & Middle East September 27, 2026

Namibia Counts Its Big Predators

Namibia now has roughly 1,200 cheetahs, somewhere between 130 and 350 African wild dogs in about 35 ...

Events September 27, 2026

How Do You Tell Six Sea Otters Apart?

The question Vancouver Aquarium staff field more than almost any other is not about feeding or rescue. ...

An emaciated African penguin sits on a white towel inside a dark ventilated transport crate, its beak held open and a thin pale plastic band running through its mouth and around its neck.

Africa & Middle East September 27, 2026

Two African Penguins, One Volunteer, One Week

An adult striped hyena wearing a pale tracking collar walks out from under a large sandstone overhang onto bare sand, with a small striped cub standing a few paces behind her looking toward the camera.

Africa & Middle East September 26, 2026

A Striped Hyena Cub Is Born in a Saudi Reserve

Two scuba divers hold lit carved pumpkins inside an aquarium habitat at the Vancouver Aquarium

Events September 26, 2026

Underwater Pumpkin Carving Returns to Vancouver September 26

Zoo Babies

A newborn Masai giraffe calf stands facing the camera inside a barn, her head and long neck filling the frame, with wooden stall walls behind.

North America September 16, 2026

Brevard Zoo’s First Giraffe Calf in Six Years

Brevard Zoo has its first giraffe calf in six years. A female Masai giraffe weighing 119 pounds ...

A lappet-faced vulture at a captive breeding facility

Africa & Middle East September 13, 2026

A First Chick, and the Two Zoos Thanked for It

A lappet-faced vulture chick hatched at VulPro’s breeding facility on Heritage Day, September 24, 2025. It was ...

North & South American News

Events

How Do You Tell Six Sea Otters Apart?

Two scuba divers hold lit carved pumpkins inside an aquarium habitat at the Vancouver Aquarium

Events

Underwater Pumpkin Carving Returns to Vancouver September 26

A blue and green undersea scene projected across the stone masonry of the Brooklyn Bridge at night, with orange fish shapes across the center, a telescopic lift carrying the projector rig at the left, and two people walking past barriers at the base.

Conservation Projects

The Brooklyn Bridge Becomes an Ocean for One Night

Two trumpeter swans with white plumage and black bills swim on green pond water, with a mallard drake nearby and rain dimpling the surface.

Conservation Projects

Trumpeter Swans Return to Lincoln Park Zoo’s Swan Pond

European News

A young child in a green knitted hat shaped like a fish holds a cluster of twigs up to her face, smiling, with an adult and another child blurred behind her in autumn woodland.

Europe

WWT Brings Back SUPER Natural for Half Term

A giant anteater with a long tapering snout and a bold white stripe along its dark flank stands beside a fallen log in dappled light, its thin tongue extended toward the bark.

Europe

Two Species New to Dublin Zoo Go on Show

Two giraffes stand outside a long grey and timber building with tall glazed bays, one walking past the open doorways and the other reaching toward a dark feeder bag hung from a post.

Europe

Cologne Zoo Adds a Virtual Savanna Next Door

An adult gorilla sits on a rock in long dry grass, cradling a newborn infant against her chest with one arm, the infant's small dark hand and face just visible against her fur.

Conservation Projects

A Gorilla Is Born at Denmark’s Only Gorilla Zoo

African & Middle Eastern News

An African grass owl stands at a ground nest inside a tunnel of dense flattened grass at night, a rodent hanging from its beak, with two downy chicks visible in the shadows behind it.

Africa & Middle East

This Owl Will Not Nest in Just Any Grass

Two women stand smiling on either side of a large printed map of Namibia pinned to a wall, the map marked with green protected areas and conservancy boundaries; the woman on the left wears a black Cheetah Conservation Fund shirt and the woman on the right a green WWF shirt.

Africa & Middle East

Namibia Counts Its Big Predators

An emaciated African penguin sits on a white towel inside a dark ventilated transport crate, its beak held open and a thin pale plastic band running through its mouth and around its neck.

Africa & Middle East

Two African Penguins, One Volunteer, One Week

An adult striped hyena wearing a pale tracking collar walks out from under a large sandstone overhang onto bare sand, with a small striped cub standing a few paces behind her looking toward the camera.

Africa & Middle East

A Striped Hyena Cub Is Born in a Saudi Reserve

Asia & Australian News

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

A young pangolin curls in a keeper's gloved hands, its overlapping scales and long front claws clearly visible.

Asia

Historic Moment: Taipei-Born Pangolin Gives Birth at Prague Zoo!

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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