Conservation Projects (page 2) - ZooReviews

Conservation Projects

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

Africa & Middle East

Twenty-Two Collars, and a Flight Back to Niassa

Mr Zoo News

An aerial view looking down on a sedated elephant suspended head down from a blue crane arm above a white flatbed truck, with about fifteen rangers and staff standing around the vehicle on bare red soil in dry thorn scrub.

Africa & Middle East

The Arrowhead Was Lodged in the Bull’s Eye Socket

October 5, 2026

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

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

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 ...

Africa & Middle East

A Snared Lion in Meru, and the Team That Cut Him Free

A young male lion in Kenya’s Meru National Park was found with a ...

A mountain bongo bull stands in dense green forest looking straight at the camera, his deep chestnut coat marked with narrow white stripes, long spiralling horns rising above his head and a pale chevron between his eyes.

Africa & Middle East

Kenya’s Mountain Bongo Plan Leans on Zoo-Bred Herds

Kenya has a new plan to save its rarest large mammal, and the ...

An emaciated African penguin sits on a white towel inside a dark ventilated transport crate, its beak held open and a thin pale plastic band running through its mouth and around its neck.

Africa & Middle East

Two African Penguins, One Volunteer, One Week

Two critically endangered African penguins are recovering at the African Penguin and Seabird ...

An adult striped hyena wearing a pale tracking collar walks out from under a large sandstone overhang onto bare sand, with a small striped cub standing a few paces behind her looking toward the camera.

Africa & Middle East

A Striped Hyena Cub Is Born in a Saudi Reserve

In August 2026, field teams watching a den in the NEOM Nature Reserve ...

An Amur tiger cub lowers her head to eat from a pale slab of frozen meat marked BURSA on the grass, with the legs of an adult tiger standing behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Turkey’s Only Amur Tiger Cub Reaches 100 Days

Bursa Zoo marked the hundredth day of an Amur tiger cub called Victoria ...

A mountain gazelle stands with her head lowered to the floor of a corrugated metal shed at night, among scattered timber, feed bowls and debris, with poultry roosting on a frame behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Pregnant Gazelle Found Caged Near Hebron, Now at Safari

A mountain gazelle in the late stages of pregnancy was found locked in ...

Three young trainees in blue mechanic's overalls and caps crouching on the ground beside a pickup truck, working together on a leaf-spring assembly with hand tools.

Africa & Middle East

Ol Pejeta Is Training Laikipia’s Next Mechanics

Ten trainee mechanics are currently working out of the Kamok garage at Ol ...

A young orphaned elephant standing in a shallow muddy waterhole with its trunk curled up, surrounded by the legs and bodies of older elephants in the herd.

Africa & Middle East

The Voi Kids: Tsavo’s Drought Orphans, Four Years On

In the second half of 2022, drought emptied the southern sector of Kenya’s ...

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