Africa & Middle East (page 16)

Africa & Middle East

Zoo news and information from Africa and the Middle East.

Africa & Middle East

Seven Tags, and What an MPA Actually Protects

Mr Zoo News

Claudine Andre, with red hair and a dark patterned shirt, smiling and holding an infant bonobo against her chest in front of green foliage.

Africa & Middle East

She Was Told the Bonobo Would Not Survive

November 6, 2026

Two researchers in orange and red life vests crouched on a dock beside a boat, fitting a camera to a metal BRUV frame in the V&A Waterfront canal.

Africa & Middle East

More Fish in the Canals Than in the Harbour

A newly hatched Aldabra giant tortoise, its shell dusted with pale sand, resting on broad green leaves at the Cousin Island field centre.

Africa & Middle East

Eleven Hatchlings, and One Wild Nest in Fifteen

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 ...

Two adult stone curlews, both wearing colored leg rings, stand on sandy ground scattered with grasses and low weeds beside a small downy chick.

Africa & Middle East

Rabat Zoo Bred About Fifty Species in One Quarter

Morocco’s national zoo recorded births across about fifty species in the first three ...

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 ...

A newly built circular concrete water storage tank stands on bare red earth under a blue sky in Meru County, Kenya, with a steel outlet pipe curving down its side, two small concrete access chambers in front of it and a commemorative plaque mounted on the tank wall marking the launch of water distribution from the Subuiga Dam.

Africa & Middle East

A Swiss Zoo Helped Build a Dam in Meru County

The plaque bolted to the side of the new concrete water tank at ...

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