Africa & Middle East

Zoo news and information from Africa and the Middle East.

Seven Tags, and What an MPA Actually Protects

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Claudine Andre, with red hair and a dark patterned shirt, smiling and holding an infant bonobo against her chest in front of green foliage.

Africa & Middle East

She Was Told the Bonobo Would Not Survive

November 6, 2026

Two researchers in orange and red life vests crouched on a dock beside a boat, fitting a camera to a metal BRUV frame in the V&A Waterfront canal.

Africa & Middle East

More Fish in the Canals Than in the Harbour

A newly hatched Aldabra giant tortoise, its shell dusted with pale sand, resting on broad green leaves at the Cousin Island field centre.

Africa & Middle East

Eleven Hatchlings, and One Wild Nest in Fifteen

A raised black water tank on a steel frame topped with solar panels stands above a whitewashed walled enclosure with a green gate. Two people stand in front of it on red earth, with thatched and mud-brick houses behind.

Africa & Middle East

A Cheese Company Paid for This Clinic

The village of Agoumar, in the Rafaï commune of the Central African Republic, ...

An aerial view of the Namib desert dunes running west to a narrow pale beach, where surf breaks into opaque green Atlantic water under a blue sky.

Africa & Middle East

The Desert Park That Owns a Piece of the Atlantic

Fly along the western edge of Angola’s Iona National Park and the geography ...

An ocean sunfish swims through murky green water, its mottled grey disc-shaped body and tall dorsal fin filling the frame.

Africa & Middle East

A Fish With No Tail, and 300 Million Eggs

Cape Town’s summer brings a fish that looks like it was assembled from ...

Two young orphaned elephants coated in red dust in low evening light. One sits on the sand while the other stands beside it and drapes its trunk over the first one's head.

Africa & Middle East

The Keeper Who Did Not Take a Day Off for Five Months

On the morning of November 4, 2025, a search party from the Sheldrick ...

Two adult African savanna elephants stand close together in dry bush under a blue sky, with a very small calf sheltered between their legs

Africa & Middle East

A Calf Born to the Elephant Every Vet Said to Put Down

At two o’clock in the morning on October 29, just after a sprinkling ...

Two adult red-necked ostriches, one black-plumaged male and one brown female, walk through tall golden grass with several chicks around them, below the red sandstone cliffs of the Ennedi massif

Africa & Middle East

They Knew the Ostrich From Rock Art. Now There Are 103.

In the Ennedi Natural and Cultural Reserve, in the far northeast of Chad, ...

Four adult African savanna elephants and two calves drink from a long concrete water trough on dry grassland at Ol Pejeta Conservancy

Africa & Middle East

The Pipes Are Three Feet Down Because of the Elephants

Ol Pejeta Conservancy has buried its water pipes three feet underground, which is ...

Board members seated around tables arranged in a U in a meeting room in N'Djamena, with a projector on a low table in the middle

Africa & Middle East

Chad’s Largest Reserve Just Got a Board of Directors

On Friday 27 March 2026 a small group sat around tables in a ...

A ranger in green uniform sits at a desk in the Ol Pejeta radio room, facing a large monitor showing the EarthRanger map over satellite imagery of the conservancy

Africa & Middle East

The Room Where Ol Pejeta Watches 90,000 Acres

A ranger sits at a desk in a radio room at Ol Pejeta ...

Aerial view of Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a river winding through green woodland under low cloud

Africa & Middle East

Paid for Every Square Kilometer That Stays Intact

Conservation money is usually paid out at the front. A donor funds a ...

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