Conservation Projects

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

Three people in navy uniforms and high-visibility vests kneel on the wet concrete floor of a dry dock, working a Cape fur seal into a dark mesh net, with the red hull of a vessel and yellow scaffolding rising behind them and a fourth worker further down the dock.

Africa & Middle East

Cape Fur Seals Trapped in a Dry Dock, All Four Out

Mr Zoo News

An adult elephant stands at a muddy waterhole inside a fenced stockade compound with a very small newborn calf tucked under her belly between her front and back legs, other elephants and a water tank visible behind them.

Africa & Middle East

An Orphan’s Daughter, and Tsavo’s 95th Grandcalf

October 3, 2026

Five members of a veterinary team stand on a forest track in front of a black painted sign reading la clinique veterinaire, with dense green rainforest behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Cameroon’s Apes Wait Days for a Blood Test

An armadillo girdled lizard curled into a tight ring on lichen-covered rock, gripping its own spined tail in its jaws, the yellow and black markings of its throat visible and every scale raised into a point.

Africa & Middle East

Two Armored Lizards and a Pet Trade Problem

Three African wild dogs walk toward the camera across short green grass and bare red earth, ears up and heads low, with more of the pack blurred behind them among thorn scrub.

Africa & Middle East

Wild Dogs Came Back to Northern Tsavo

Twenty-five years ago, seeing a single African wild dog in northern Tsavo was ...

A long, brightly lit aquarium tank glowing blue in a dark room, holding several branching and plating coral colonies on a pale sand bed.

Africa & Middle East

A Seychelles Coral Lab Wins a Global Award

The coral spawning laboratory that Nature Seychelles and its partners built on Praslin ...

Four Kenya Wildlife Service staff in green uniforms and blue surgical gloves kneel and stand around an adult Maasai giraffe lying on her side on dry grassland, a soft rope running along her body, with scattered thorn trees behind.

Africa & Middle East

Who Pays to Cut a Snare Off a Giraffe

A giraffe stands up for most of its life. It rests standing, it ...

Six North African ostriches stride across bare sandy ground beside a wire mesh fence in dry scrub, two of them at a run in the foreground, with thorn bushes and a hazy sky behind.

Africa & Middle East

Eight Ostriches Walked Back Into Niger

At 2:02 in the afternoon on September 2, 2026, eight North African ostriches ...

A young western lowland gorilla with dark fur and brown eyes sits against the chest of a person in a green jacket, looking toward the camera, with broad green leaves behind her.

Africa & Middle East

A Rescued Gorilla Flew From Lagos to Pointe-Noire

On September 21, a young gorilla named Bili was loaded into a crate ...

A young gorilla with dense black fur and reddish-brown eyes looks slightly away from the camera, framed by broad green leaves and a pale plant stem in dappled forest light.

Africa & Middle East

445 Square Kilometers of Congolese Forest, Legally Theirs

On World Gorilla Day, September 24, 2026, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund announced ...

About a dozen Kenya Wildlife Service rangers in green overalls brace against a blindfolded rhino in dry leaf-littered bush, guiding it forward with a thick rope while an armed ranger watches from the right.

Africa & Middle East

Kenya’s Rhino Sanctuary Outgrew Itself

On World Rhino Day, September 22, 2026, Kenya launched the expanded Tsavo West ...

A man in a cap and aviation headset sits in the front of a helicopter over dry bushveld, holding a Cape Vulture upright against his chest with one hand around its neck, the bird's pale hooked bill and dark eye turned toward the window.

Africa & Middle East

Sixteen Vultures Went Back to Their Nests

On August 28, 2026, the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Birds of Prey Unit was ...

Two cheetahs rest in dry woodland behind a screen of yellow and orange leaves, the nearer animal looking toward the camera and the second partly hidden behind it.

Africa & Middle East

Cheetahs Are Back in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley

Six cheetahs have been flown from South Africa into a remote southern corner ...

A vervet monkey sits in the fork of a tree in bright sunlight, one hand raised to its mouth, surrounded by broad green leaves and thin branches.

Africa & Middle East

A Vervet Troop Goes Back to the Wild in Malawi

A whole troop of vervet monkeys went back into a Malawian national park ...

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