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Conservation Projects

News and information about conservation projects by zoological facilities in Africa & the Middle East

Two adult African elephants stand in the dust at the Ithumba stockades with a newborn calf sheltered between their legs.

Africa & Middle East

Chyulu Nannied Lulu in 2018. Now Lulu Nannies Her Calf.

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Africa & Middle East

Saudi Arabia’s Vulture Restaurants Get a Rulebook

October 23, 2026

Around forty delegates to the National Sea Turtle Workshop stand and sit together for a group photograph in a timber-framed room at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town.

Africa & Middle East

Forty-Five People and One Plan for South Africa’s Turtles

A very small elephant calf stands among several larger orphaned elephants on red earth, dwarfed by the legs and bodies around it, at a Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant orphanage in Kenya.

Africa & Middle East

A Matriarch Died at 53 and Her Calf Would Not Leave

An adult orangutan with long reddish-brown hair lies on her back on pale striped bedding and straw, looking straight at the camera. A very young infant orangutan with sparse hair and a grey face lies on her chest, one small hand gripping her hair and its eyes closed. Green browse leaves on a cut branch lie beside her.

Africa & Middle East

Jerusalem Biblical Zoo’s First Orangutan Is Named Cahaya

The Tisch Family Zoological Gardens, which almost everybody calls the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, ...

A crowd of girls in bright orange polo shirts stand close together outdoors, laughing, with a dozen hands reaching in to hold a black planting bag containing a young tree seedling with broad green leaves. The shirts carry printed Portuguese text about girls' rights and ending early marriage, and a circular Gorongosa badge on the sleeve. Trees and open sky are behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Zoo Boise Funds the Girls’ Clubs That Just Turned Ten

On 11 October 2026 Gorongosa National Park marked the International Day of the ...

Satellite tracks of two rehabilitated sea turtles released off South Africa, one running north and west across the Atlantic and the other looping east into the Indian Ocean.

Africa & Middle East

The Tag on Nori the Green Turtle Has Gone Quiet

The satellite tag on Nori, a green turtle rehabilitated and released by the ...

Thirteen delegates pose in two rows at the Abuja launch of Nigeria's National Business Action Plan for Biodiversity, each holding a printed copy of the plan, in front of a banner reading strengthening business engagement in Nigeria's biodiversity agenda.

Africa & Middle East

Nigeria Hands Its Companies a Biodiversity Playbook

Nigeria now has a written set of instructions for companies that want to ...

Rows of students sit facing a Cheetah Conservation Fund veterinarian who is presenting beside a projected slide reading, when an animal gets sick, is the problem only about that one animal, in a classroom at the CCF Somaliland campus near Hargeisa.

Africa & Middle East

Hargeisa’s Vet Students Came to the Cheetahs This Time

Twenty-four students from the University of Hargeisa spent a day at the Cheetah ...

A large group of schoolchildren and adults standing on a sandy roadside below green coastal fynbos behind a pile of about a dozen full yellow refuse bags, with two white banners flying.

Africa & Middle East

53 Kilograms, and the Data That Came With It

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

Four people on a grass airstrip fringed by coconut palms assemble a large green conical hopper mounted on a wheeled frame, part of the equipment for the Alphonse Atoll invasive species eradication.

Africa & Middle East

187 Tortoises Moved So the Rats Could Go

Before the Island Conservation Society could begin removing rats from Alphonse Atoll, it ...

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

Africa & Middle East

140 Children and the Forest Next Door

Through August, 140 children from two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of the ...

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

A veterinary team in Tsavo got a wire snare off a wild giraffe ...

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

Two Israeli marine inspectors put their heads underwater off the western Galilee coast ...

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