Conservation Projects (page 3)

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

An aerial view of several hundred wildebeest moving in loose columns across golden floodplain grassland that runs flat to the horizon under a pale sky.

Africa & Middle East

Twenty-Five Years On, Liuwa Renews the Deal

African Parks now manages 23 protected areas across 12 African countries. All of ...

Four gemsbok standing in low green Kalahari scrub beneath a broad rainbow and tall cumulus cloud. The nearest animal faces the camera with long straight horns and a black and white face pattern.

Africa & Middle East

The Kalahari’s Oldest Border Park Gets 2.5 Million Euros

The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park was the first of its kind in southern Africa, ...

A pack of five African wild dogs on a sandy track in open woodland at low sun. The lead animal walks toward the camera in sharp focus, with large rounded ears and a mottled tan, black and white coat; four more dogs stand and walk out of focus behind it.

Africa & Middle East

Two Packs, Twenty Wild Dogs, One Zimbabwean Park

Twenty African wild dogs went into Matusadona National Park in February, in two ...

An aerial view of several hundred Nile lechwe running in long lines across a shallow flooded plain in the Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape, dark-coated males scattered among tawny females.

Africa & Middle East

Six Million Antelope Just Got a World Heritage Listing

The migration that African Parks and the government of South Sudan describe as ...

A black rhino with its horn cut back walks across the sand of a wooden holding boma at Matusadona National Park, photographed through a viewing slot, with a second rhino standing behind the poles.

Africa & Middle East

The Rhinos Came Back, and Nobody Will Say How Many

Black rhino are back in Matusadona National Park, on the southern shore of ...

A man leans over the side of an inflatable boat to lower a young green sea turtle into open Mediterranean water while two children and a woman watch from the bow.

Africa & Middle East

Cutting the Plastic Off Can Kill the Turtle

If you find a sea turtle on an Israeli beach with plastic wound ...

A light aircraft of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Aerial Unit stands on a grass airstrip in Kenya with rangers and a vehicle beside it, and a zebra grazing behind the wing.

Africa & Middle East

A Wildebeest Broke Her Snare Free. That Made It Worse.

Scouts from the Nasaru Olosho Conservancy, in the Amboseli ecosystem of southern Kenya, ...

An adult Egyptian vulture with white plumage and a bright yellow face stands on a rock in a flowering meadow, beside the LIFE EV Safe Return project title and a strip of the fifteen partner organisation logos.

Africa & Middle East

A Vulture Saved in Bulgaria Can Still Die in Chad

Every autumn the Egyptian vultures that breed on the cliffs of Bulgaria, Greece, ...

A Nature Seychelles field officer in a blue shirt bending over a nesting hawksbill turtle in beach vegetation on Cousin Island, the turtle part buried in pale sand.

Africa & Middle East

Six Knitters, One Hawksbill, and Cousin Island

Nature Seychelles has spent decades counting hawksbill turtles coming ashore on Cousin Island ...

Two young orphaned elephants coated in red Tsavo dust, one standing on a mound of red earth beside acacia scrub and one lying down in the dust beside her.

Africa & Middle East

Speared at Two, Swimming at Three: the Rescue of Sibu

The Kenya Wildlife Service found her on January 19, 2026, near Roaring Rocks ...

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