Conservation Projects (page 5) - 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

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

At dawn on October 2, a wild elephant walked out of Tsavo East ...

Five members of a veterinary team stand on a forest track in front of a black painted sign reading la clinique veterinaire, with dense green rainforest behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Cameroon’s Apes Wait Days for a Blood Test

When a gorilla at the Mefou sanctuary outside Yaounde falls ill, Ape Action ...

An armadillo girdled lizard curled into a tight ring on lichen-covered rock, gripping its own spined tail in its jaws, the yellow and black markings of its throat visible and every scale raised into a point.

Africa & Middle East

Two Armored Lizards and a Pet Trade Problem

Threatened by a predator, an armadillo girdled lizard curls into a ring and ...

Three African wild dogs walk toward the camera across short green grass and bare red earth, ears up and heads low, with more of the pack blurred behind them among thorn scrub.

Africa & Middle East

Wild Dogs Came Back to Northern Tsavo

Twenty-five years ago, seeing a single African wild dog in northern Tsavo was ...

A long, brightly lit aquarium tank glowing blue in a dark room, holding several branching and plating coral colonies on a pale sand bed.

Africa & Middle East

A Seychelles Coral Lab Wins a Global Award

The coral spawning laboratory that Nature Seychelles and its partners built on Praslin ...

Four Kenya Wildlife Service staff in green uniforms and blue surgical gloves kneel and stand around an adult Maasai giraffe lying on her side on dry grassland, a soft rope running along her body, with scattered thorn trees behind.

Africa & Middle East

Who Pays to Cut a Snare Off a Giraffe

A giraffe stands up for most of its life. It rests standing, it ...

Six North African ostriches stride across bare sandy ground beside a wire mesh fence in dry scrub, two of them at a run in the foreground, with thorn bushes and a hazy sky behind.

Africa & Middle East

Eight Ostriches Walked Back Into Niger

At 2:02 in the afternoon on September 2, 2026, eight North African ostriches ...

A young western lowland gorilla with dark fur and brown eyes sits against the chest of a person in a green jacket, looking toward the camera, with broad green leaves behind her.

Africa & Middle East

A Rescued Gorilla Flew From Lagos to Pointe-Noire

On September 21, a young gorilla named Bili was loaded into a crate ...

A young gorilla with dense black fur and reddish-brown eyes looks slightly away from the camera, framed by broad green leaves and a pale plant stem in dappled forest light.

Africa & Middle East

445 Square Kilometers of Congolese Forest, Legally Theirs

On World Gorilla Day, September 24, 2026, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund announced ...

About a dozen Kenya Wildlife Service rangers in green overalls brace against a blindfolded rhino in dry leaf-littered bush, guiding it forward with a thick rope while an armed ranger watches from the right.

Africa & Middle East

Kenya’s Rhino Sanctuary Outgrew Itself

On World Rhino Day, September 22, 2026, Kenya launched the expanded Tsavo West ...

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