Conservation Projects (page 2) - ZooReviews

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.

Mr Zoo News

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

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

An orphaned rhino calf at Care for Wild drinks 16 to 18 liters ...

Africa & Middle East

69 Orphaned Elephants, 20 Back in the Wild

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

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 ...

A facilitator leans over a classroom desk where primary school learners in uniform work together around two digital tablets, part of a conservation education program in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Africa & Middle East

Care for Wild Put Facilitators in Four Schools

Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary in Mpumalanga, South Africa is known for raising ...

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 ...

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 ...

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