Conservation Projects (page 4) - 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

Four downy grey-brown African penguin chicks sitting together on a pale pink towel in an indoor nursery at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, one wearing an orange flipper tag.

Africa & Middle East

Four African Penguin Chicks Hatch Inland, at Pretoria

Four African penguin chicks have hatched at South Africa’s National Zoological Garden in ...

A two-panel photograph. On the left, volunteers in sun hats lean over an outdoor table covered with large sheets of paper, sketching and writing. On the right, two workers in green overalls and hard hats load cut invasive brush onto the back of a pickup truck.

Africa & Middle East

Fifty Disney Volunteers and a Workshop on Vultures

More than 50 Disney Africa employees spent a day in September at the ...

A large group of young hikers in caps and beanies standing close together and laughing on a rocky outcrop at Medike Nature Reserve, with the wooded slopes of the Soutpansberg rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East

A Single Guided Hike Became a Hiking Club

Twenty-three young people walked up to a waterfall and a wall of ancient ...

Five cheetahs walking in a loose line across pale, tussocky grassland scattered with low green shrubs, with the rocky slopes of a Namibian mountain range rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East

The Case for Judging a Dryland by Its Cheetahs

If you want to know whether a dryland is healthy, count the cheetahs ...

Ramon, a young green sea turtle missing his left front flipper, swims just below the surface of deep blue open water shortly after release, his silhouette reflected in the underside of the surface above him.

Africa & Middle East

Eight Turtles Out of Plastic Bags, One a Flipper Short

Eight sea turtles that spent the summer tangled in plastic bags on Israel’s ...

A hawksbill sea turtle lies head-down in a shallow body pit she has dug in pale coral sand on Ile Plate, her dark patterned carapace filling the frame, low green vegetation behind her.

Africa & Middle East

A Hawksbill Dug for Three Hours to Find the Right Spot

A hawksbill sea turtle spent three hours on a beach on Ile Plate, ...

A conference hall filled with delegates seated in white-draped chairs, facing stage screens showing an African savanna graphic and the word WELCOME.

Africa & Middle East

Too Rich for Aid, and Out of Money for Birds

The chief executive of a conservation organization does not usually end a statement ...

Africa & Middle East

Twenty-Two Collars, and a Flight Back to Niassa

Twenty-two vultures, four species, one set of hands that had never done it ...

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

For months, a one-eyed African savanna elephant bull had been causing trouble around ...

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

Four Cape fur seals swam into a Cape Town dry dock before it ...

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