Africa & Middle East

Zoo news and information from Africa and the Middle East.

Dozens of children stand among broad-leaved forest plants near Nkuba with their hands raised, several holding printed photographs of gorillas and birds.

140 Children and the Forest Next Door

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A giraffe stands in Tsavo scrub with a pink veterinary dart in its hindquarters as a helicopter hovers in the cloudy sky behind it.

Africa & Middle East

150 Seconds to Get a Snare Off a Giraffe

October 18, 2026

A marbled electric ray rests flat on a rocky seabed off Shavei Zion, its mottled disc patterned in pale rings that blend into the encrusted stone around it.

Africa & Middle East

Dozens of Electric Rays Gathered Off a Galilee Beach

A caregiver holds a large bottle of milk to the mouth of a young rhino lying on a bed of hay inside a straw-lined boma at Care for Wild.

Africa & Middle East

What Goes Into a Bottle for an Orphaned Rhino

Africa & Middle East

69 Orphaned Elephants, 20 Back in the Wild

Zambia had no facility capable of raising an orphaned elephant calf when Rachael ...

A large group of conference delegates stands and crouches together for a group photograph in front of a screen reading IZE International Zoo Educators Conference Cape Town 2026.

Africa & Middle East

187 Educators, 35 Countries, One Aquarium

For five days in October the global conversation about how zoos and aquariums ...

A large group of teenage students and aquarium staff stand and crouch together on a shell-strewn beach on South Africa’s West Coast.

Africa & Middle East

42 Teenagers Spent a Week Being Marine Biologists

On a Saturday morning in late September, 42 Grade 10 learners walked into ...

A Cheetah Conservation Fund handler stands on a sand track beside a seated scat detection dog, next to a game fence in rural Namibia.

Africa & Middle East

The Cheetah Count Just Dropped Below 7,000

For years the Cheetah Conservation Fund has said the same sentence: fewer than ...

A lioness stands on a low rock in dry thornbush scrub in the Tsavo Conservation Area of southeastern Kenya, in late afternoon light.

Africa & Middle East

Two Villages, One Decline, Two Explanations

Ask twelve villages around the Serengeti whether there is less bushmeat around than ...

Rows of shallow blue raceway tanks under a green shade canopy at the Assisted Recovery of Corals facility on Praslin island, Seychelles.

Africa & Middle East

Seychelles Wants a Coral Bank Before the Next Bleaching

The warning arrived before the heat did. On October 6 the United States ...

An immobilized white rhino lies on its side with a cloth blindfold over its eyes while a handler works at its trimmed horn

Africa & Middle East

Why a Sanctuary Cuts the Horns Off Its Rhinos

A rhino with no horn is an uncomfortable photograph. It reads as damage, ...

A loggerhead turtle swims through a large blue exhibit tank past batfish and a submerged log

Africa & Middle East

Three Flippers, and Nearly Ready for the Ocean

Habanero arrived at the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle Conservation Centre in Cape ...

A caregiver in khaki bottle-feeds a young orphaned rhino calf in a sand-floored boma with a pole fence behind them

Africa & Middle East

A Poached Rhino Left an Orphan. She Is Now a Mother.

In March 2014, rangers in Kruger National Park found a seven-month-old white rhino ...

A video still at dusk showing three adult African elephants and a small calf walking together through tall dry grass, with scrub and a flat-topped acacia on the horizon behind them.

Africa & Middle East

A Calf Fell Into a Septic Tank. Water Got Her Out.

A young elephant calf fell into a septic tank in Kenya’s Tsavo region ...

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