Conservation Projects (page 3)

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

An adult female Grauer's gorilla sitting on the forest floor among bamboo, cradling a very small dark infant against her chest with both arms, with the silver back of another gorilla visible behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Rescued Gorilla Lulingu Gives Birth in Virunga

A Grauer’s gorilla who was taken from her family by wildlife traffickers as ...

A large group of volunteers, most of them schoolchildren in warm clothing, stand on a gravel verge behind a pile of full yellow waste bags, with two banners and green coastal fynbos on the slope behind them.

Africa & Middle East

What 34 Volunteers Took Off One South African Beach

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

Four men carry a long wooden Kenya Top Bar beehive with a metal roof beneath a mango tree, with two women watching from the grass behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Twenty-Nine Beehives Between Ugandan Farms and Forest

Twenty-nine beehives now hang along the boundary between farmland and forest reserve in ...

A sedated adult bull elephant lying on its side in dry grass beside a red dirt track, with rangers and veterinary staff in green uniforms standing at its head, a field vehicle to the left and a loading machine behind.

Africa & Middle East

Two Fence-Breaking Bulls Get a New Address in Tsavo

On September 15 and again on September 16, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and ...

Five people standing barefoot in shallow water on a kelp-strewn rocky shore at low tide, bending to look at something in a pool, with a blue sea and mountains behind them.

Africa & Middle East

A Cape Town Aquarium’s Ocean Holiday Goes Global

An idea that started at an aquarium in Cape Town is now a ...

Africa & Middle East

17.6 Million Mangroves Later, Lamu’s Forest Is Coming Back

Six years ago the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust put a small team of Kenyan ...

A young black rhino and a young zebra walking side by side through dry grass and scrub, both facing the camera, the rhino on the right with a short forward-curving horn.

Africa & Middle East

Orphaned Black Rhino Tytan Marks His First Year in Kenya

A year ago today, rangers found a black rhino calf at the bottom ...

Sanctuary staff working on a primate enclosure

Africa & Middle East

A 2,000 Pound Appeal, and Three European Zoos

Ape Action Africa asked for 2,000 pounds to rebuild a guenon enclosure at ...

A loggerhead turtle in a rehabilitation pool

Africa & Middle East

They Published the Guarded Prognosis

Two Oceans Aquarium’s Turtle Conservation Centre releases 85 percent of the turtles it ...

A ragged-tooth shark being moved for release

Africa & Middle East

Eight Years of Evidence in a Case Never Brought

Four ragged-tooth sharks were intercepted at Cape Town International Airport in May 2018, ...

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