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Africa & Middle East

Zoo news and information from Africa and the Middle East.

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

Mr Zoo News

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

October 16, 2026

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

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

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 ...

Salima Niyigena stands at a wood-panelled podium gesturing toward a large screen that shows her presentation title slide, which reads 'Oral processing behaviors of golden monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis spp. kandti) from the Volcanoes National park in Rwanda' above a photograph of three golden monkeys on a rocky slope.

Africa & Middle East

The Rwandan Scientist Studying How Golden Monkeys Chew

Salima Niyigena studies how golden monkeys chew. In September she took that work ...

Abby Cadabby on the left and Elmo on the right lean in close on either side of a young African elephant's head and trunk at an outdoor enclosure, with hills and trees behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Elmo Flew to Kenya to Meet the Elephant He Adopted

Sesame Street and the Great Elephant Adventure, a crossover between PBS’s Nature and ...

A sedated mandrill lies on a padded veterinary table with an anesthetic tube at his muzzle and a towel under his head, his red and blue ridged face toward the camera. An imaging console screen stands in the foreground showing the X-ray software and the study identifiers.

Africa & Middle East

Mefou’s Vets Can Finally See Inside Their Own Patients

Until last week, a gorilla at the Mefou sanctuary outside Yaounde who needed ...

A hawksbill turtle swimming at the surface of a rehabilitation tank, seen from above and in front. Her patterned brown and amber shell and a single raised front flipper are in frame, with the pointed hawk-like beak that gives the species its name clearly visible.

Africa & Middle East

Amber Lost a Flipper Long Before She Washed Ashore

The subadult hawksbill turtle that washed ashore at Betty’s Bay on September 7 ...

An aerial view of several hundred wildebeest moving in loose columns across golden floodplain grassland that runs flat to the horizon under a pale sky.

Africa & Middle East

Twenty-Five Years On, Liuwa Renews the Deal

African Parks now manages 23 protected areas across 12 African countries. All of ...

Four gemsbok standing in low green Kalahari scrub beneath a broad rainbow and tall cumulus cloud. The nearest animal faces the camera with long straight horns and a black and white face pattern.

Africa & Middle East

The Kalahari’s Oldest Border Park Gets 2.5 Million Euros

The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park was the first of its kind in southern Africa, ...

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