Africa & Middle East
460 Gorillas Named Since 2005
Rwanda named 22 baby mountain gorillas on September 4, 2026. That brings the ...
Africa & Middle East
Who Pays the Vets for the Last Orphans
The only facility in the world caring for orphaned mountain gorillas is at ...
Africa & Middle East
No Gorilla Twins Here Had Reached Six Months
On July 8, 2026, Uzima and Urithi turned six months old. No mountain ...
Africa & Middle East
Two Sets of Twins in Three Months
Twin mountain gorillas occur in fewer than one percent of births. Virunga National ...
Africa & Middle East
She Lost Twins in 2016. She Had Twins Again.
Mafuko had twins in 2016. They died a week later. On January 3, ...
Africa & Middle East
Twenty-Four Rhinos, Each With a Code in Both Ears
Over eight days in September, a team of veterinarians, rangers and spotters worked ...
Africa & Middle East
Not One Penguin Species Is Currently Doing Well
Two people from a South African conservation trust went to the world’s main ...
Africa & Middle East
Nine Years of Measuring Penguins
You cannot tell a male African penguin from a female by looking. That ...
Africa & Middle East
A Seabird Hospital Took a Minister to Court
In March 2025 a South African court set aside a government decision on ...
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 ...
