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Africa & Middle East

Zoo news and information from Africa and the Middle East.

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

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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

September 27, 2026

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

An Amur tiger cub lowers her head to eat from a pale slab of frozen meat marked BURSA on the grass, with the legs of an adult tiger standing behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Turkey’s Only Amur Tiger Cub Reaches 100 Days

Bursa Zoo marked the hundredth day of an Amur tiger cub called Victoria ...

A mountain gazelle stands with her head lowered to the floor of a corrugated metal shed at night, among scattered timber, feed bowls and debris, with poultry roosting on a frame behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Pregnant Gazelle Found Caged Near Hebron, Now at Safari

A mountain gazelle in the late stages of pregnancy was found locked in ...

Three young trainees in blue mechanic's overalls and caps crouching on the ground beside a pickup truck, working together on a leaf-spring assembly with hand tools.

Africa & Middle East

Ol Pejeta Is Training Laikipia’s Next Mechanics

Ten trainee mechanics are currently working out of the Kamok garage at Ol ...

A young orphaned elephant standing in a shallow muddy waterhole with its trunk curled up, surrounded by the legs and bodies of older elephants in the herd.

Africa & Middle East

The Voi Kids: Tsavo’s Drought Orphans, Four Years On

In the second half of 2022, drought emptied the southern sector of Kenya’s ...

An adult female Grauer's gorilla sitting on the forest floor among bamboo, cradling a very small dark infant against her chest with both arms, with the silver back of another gorilla visible behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Rescued Gorilla Lulingu Gives Birth in Virunga

A Grauer’s gorilla who was taken from her family by wildlife traffickers as ...

A large group of volunteers, most of them schoolchildren in warm clothing, stand on a gravel verge behind a pile of full yellow waste bags, with two banners and green coastal fynbos on the slope behind them.

Africa & Middle East

What 34 Volunteers Took Off One South African Beach

Thirty-four volunteers walked the Kruismansbaai coastline at Danger Point on September 19, 2026 ...

Four men carry a long wooden Kenya Top Bar beehive with a metal roof beneath a mango tree, with two women watching from the grass behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Twenty-Nine Beehives Between Ugandan Farms and Forest

Twenty-nine beehives now hang along the boundary between farmland and forest reserve in ...

An all-black siamang walks upright along a rope strung between trees, one arm raised overhead and a piece of fruit in its mouth, with sunlit green foliage behind.

Africa & Middle East

Four Gibbons Arrive at Izmir’s Natural Life Park

Four apes moved into İzmir Doğal Yaşam Parkı this summer, and between them ...

A sedated adult bull elephant lying on its side in dry grass beside a red dirt track, with rangers and veterinary staff in green uniforms standing at its head, a field vehicle to the left and a loading machine behind.

Africa & Middle East

Two Fence-Breaking Bulls Get a New Address in Tsavo

On September 15 and again on September 16, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and ...

A camera trap housing destroyed by fire, its upper half melted into a mass of blackened bubbled plastic, with the scorched keypad and OK button still intact below.

Africa & Middle East

What a Namibian Wildfire Did to the Animals Around It

In October 2021 a wildfire burned roughly 650 square kilometers of savanna in ...

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