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An aerial view of several hundred Nile lechwe running in long lines across a shallow flooded plain in the Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape, dark-coated males scattered among tawny females.

Africa & Middle East

Six Million Antelope Just Got a World Heritage Listing

A black rhino with its horn cut back walks across the sand of a wooden holding boma at Matusadona National Park, photographed through a viewing slot, with a second rhino standing behind the poles.

Africa & Middle East

The Rhinos Came Back, and Nobody Will Say How Many

A man leans over the side of an inflatable boat to lower a young green sea turtle into open Mediterranean water while two children and a woman watch from the bow.

Africa & Middle East

Cutting the Plastic Off Can Kill the Turtle

An aerial view of several hundred Nile lechwe running in long lines across a shallow flooded plain in the Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape, dark-coated males scattered among tawny females.

Africa & Middle East October 11, 2026

Six Million Antelope Just Got a World Heritage Listing

The migration that African Parks and the government of South Sudan describe as the largest terrestrial mammal ...

A black rhino with its horn cut back walks across the sand of a wooden holding boma at Matusadona National Park, photographed through a viewing slot, with a second rhino standing behind the poles.

Africa & Middle East October 11, 2026

The Rhinos Came Back, and Nobody Will Say How Many

Black rhino are back in Matusadona National Park, on the southern shore of Lake Kariba, three decades ...

A man leans over the side of an inflatable boat to lower a young green sea turtle into open Mediterranean water while two children and a woman watch from the bow.

Africa & Middle East October 10, 2026

Cutting the Plastic Off Can Kill the Turtle

If you find a sea turtle on an Israeli beach with plastic wound around its flippers, the ...

A light aircraft of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Aerial Unit stands on a grass airstrip in Kenya with rangers and a vehicle beside it, and a zebra grazing behind the wing.

Africa & Middle East October 10, 2026

A Wildebeest Broke Her Snare Free. That Made It Worse.

An adult Egyptian vulture with white plumage and a bright yellow face stands on a rock in a flowering meadow, beside the LIFE EV Safe Return project title and a strip of the fifteen partner organisation logos.

Africa & Middle East October 10, 2026

A Vulture Saved in Bulgaria Can Still Die in Chad

A young capybara swims with only its head and upper back above the surface of a green pond, facing the camera, with reeds and a rock bank behind it.

North America October 10, 2026

Capybaras Return to San Francisco After Nearly a Decade

Zoo Babies

A cheetah lies on a bed of straw inside a concrete den, her five newborn cubs tucked in a dark huddle against her front legs, in a timestamped den-camera still from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

Conservation Projects October 9, 2026

Five Cheetahs Born, and a Fourth Generation in Virginia

Five cheetah cubs were born on Monday, October 5, 2026 at the Front Royal, Virginia campus of ...

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 ...

North & South American News

A young capybara swims with only its head and upper back above the surface of a green pond, facing the camera, with reeds and a rock bank behind it.

North America

Capybaras Return to San Francisco After Nearly a Decade

A young girl in a gray hooded sweatshirt holds a spotted toy leopard shark in both hands and studies it closely at a table in the Seattle Aquarium's Discovery Lab.

Expansions

The Seattle Aquarium Wants You to Be a Shark Nanny

A cheetah lies on a bed of straw inside a concrete den, her five newborn cubs tucked in a dark huddle against her front legs, in a timestamped den-camera still from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

Conservation Projects

Five Cheetahs Born, and a Fourth Generation in Virginia

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

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

An aerial view of several hundred Nile lechwe running in long lines across a shallow flooded plain in the Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape, dark-coated males scattered among tawny females.

Africa & Middle East

Six Million Antelope Just Got a World Heritage Listing

A black rhino with its horn cut back walks across the sand of a wooden holding boma at Matusadona National Park, photographed through a viewing slot, with a second rhino standing behind the poles.

Africa & Middle East

The Rhinos Came Back, and Nobody Will Say How Many

A man leans over the side of an inflatable boat to lower a young green sea turtle into open Mediterranean water while two children and a woman watch from the bow.

Africa & Middle East

Cutting the Plastic Off Can Kill the Turtle

A light aircraft of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Aerial Unit stands on a grass airstrip in Kenya with rangers and a vehicle beside it, and a zebra grazing behind the wing.

Africa & Middle East

A Wildebeest Broke Her Snare Free. That Made It Worse.

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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