Africa & Middle East (page 11)

Africa & Middle East

Zoo news and information from Africa and the Middle East.

Dozens of children stand among broad-leaved forest plants near Nkuba with their hands raised, several holding printed photographs of gorillas and birds.

Africa & Middle East

140 Children and the Forest Next Door

Mr Zoo News

A giraffe stands in Tsavo scrub with a pink veterinary dart in its hindquarters as a helicopter hovers in the cloudy sky behind it.

Africa & Middle East

150 Seconds to Get a Snare Off a Giraffe

October 18, 2026

A marbled electric ray rests flat on a rocky seabed off Shavei Zion, its mottled disc patterned in pale rings that blend into the encrusted stone around it.

Africa & Middle East

Dozens of Electric Rays Gathered Off a Galilee Beach

A caregiver holds a large bottle of milk to the mouth of a young rhino lying on a bed of hay inside a straw-lined boma at Care for Wild.

Africa & Middle East

What Goes Into a Bottle for an Orphaned Rhino

A row of shallow rectangular coral raceway tanks on metal frames stands under a green shade canopy beside a low white building.

Africa & Middle East

Africa’s First Coral Breeding Lab Has 65,000 New Corals

Africa’s first land-based coral breeding laboratory has produced roughly 800,000 coral embryos from ...

African penguins standing together on a rocky shore

Africa & Middle East

Forty Zoos Are Paying for This Bird

The organization that rehabilitates oiled African penguins in South Africa publishes a wall ...

A group of hooded vultures with pink bare heads feeds on scraps spread across wet ground beside a market building in Nigeria.

Africa & Middle East

Nigeria’s Vulture Crisis Has No Zoo Money Behind It

The Nigerian Conservation Foundation called on September 4, 2026 for urgent government action ...

A herd of scimitar-horned oryx on open ground in Chad

Africa & Middle East

A Zoo Paid to Start the Organization

In 2004 the Saint Louis Zoo put money into starting a foundation for ...

A lappet-faced vulture perches on a broad stick nest built in low desert scrub, with pale open ground stretching out behind it.

Africa & Middle East

A Solar Tag on an AlUla Vulture, and No Zoo Behind It

A lappet-faced vulture in northwestern Saudi Arabia is now carrying a solar-powered satellite ...

Two African elephants stand feeding among dense green scrub and trees on a grassy slope in Kenya's Maasai Mara.

Africa & Middle East

LA Zoo Students Find Elephants Back in Kenya’s Enarau

Elephants had not been recorded in Enarau Conservancy, in Kenya’s Greater Maasai Mara, ...

A chimpanzee sits upright on grass in front of dense green vegetation, holding a pale stone in both hands and looking toward the camera.

Africa & Middle East

Manno Had to Learn How to Be a Chimpanzee

The chimpanzee who taught Manno how to be a chimpanzee is called Uruhara, ...

A young zebra foal kicks up its hind legs as it runs through an open metal gate onto a sandy paddock, with an adult animal's legs visible in the background.

Africa & Middle East

The Orphan Zebra Who Chose the Giraffes

A zebra foal named Gözde lost her mother when she was three months ...

Four men in a clinic corridor, two of them carrying a plastic animal transport crate through a doorway toward a garden outside.

Africa & Middle East

İzmir Rebuilt a Jungle Cat’s Leg, Then Let It Go

A jungle cat that could not stand up when it arrived at İzmir ...

An adult Red-billed Tropicbird with a bright orange-red bill and finely barred black-and-white upperparts sits low on a nest scrape among fallen coconut husks and dry leaf litter, sheltered under vegetation.

Africa & Middle East

Seychelles Logs Its First Red-billed Tropicbird Nest

A pair of Red-billed Tropicbirds raised a chick on Platte, a half-square-kilometer island ...

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