Africa & Middle East (page 17)

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

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 ...

A hawksbill turtle sits in a hollow she has dug among eroded coral rock at the top of a beach on Desroches Island, her worn grey-brown shell facing the camera and the reef and open sea behind her.

Africa & Middle East

A Tagged Hawksbill Returned to Desroches After 15 Years

A female hawksbill turtle hauled out on Desroches Island in the Seychelles outer ...

An adult white-morph Red-footed Booby with a pale blue bill stands beside a downy grey-and-white chick in a stick nest built in the branches of a casuarina tree, against a blue sky.

Africa & Middle East

A Booby Colony Goes From 15 Nests to 213 in Two Seasons

Red-footed Boobies have roosted on St Francois Atoll in the tens of thousands ...

Ngamba Island seen from the water on a clear day, with two large thatched conical roofs above a low stone sea wall, forest running back from the shoreline and the open blue water of Lake Victoria in the foreground.

Africa & Middle East

Chimpanzees Change Their Minds When Evidence Does

Put a treat under one of two boxes, give a chimpanzee a hint ...

Three men stand on a rocky outcrop in dry bush country in northern Kenya. Two wear green Lewa Wildlife Conservancy field uniforms and the man on the left holds a small flat-shelled pancake tortoise in both hands while the others lean in to look at it.

Africa & Middle East

Kenya’s Ten-Year Plan for a Tortoise Nobody Sees

In November 2019, a survey team working the rocky outcrops of the Lewa ...

A single spotted hyena stands in tall golden grass in northern Kenya with its head turned toward the camera, its spotted shoulders, dark muzzle and rounded ears clearly visible, and a pale rock outcrop at the edge of the frame.

Africa & Middle East

Counting Hyenas With 21 Loudspeakers and One Night

Between the evening of July 13 and the morning of July 14, 2025, ...

An African manatee rests on the pale sandy floor of a large aquarium habitat, whiskered snout and paddle-shaped flippers toward the camera, with a second manatee lying behind it and a painted mangrove backdrop beyond.

Africa & Middle East

The Gift Shop That Pays for Manatee Work in Senegal

Most conservation funding traces in Africa end somewhere vague. This one ends at ...

A pangolin walks across bare red earth and low green weeds at the edge of a grassy clearing, its overlapping brown scales catching the light, while a gloved hand releases its long tail behind it.

Africa & Middle East

A Pangolin Release in Nigeria Names a Chicago Zoo

On May 31, 2024, a pangolin the Pangolin Conservation Guild Nigeria had named ...

Africa & Middle East

Dive Into a World of Marine Wonder at SeaWorld® Yas Island, Abu Dhabi – Opening on May 23, 2023!

A New Chapter in Marine Life Conservation: SeaWorld® Yas Island, Abu Dhabi Miral ...

Volunteers from Miral and Yas SeaWorld Research & Rescue cleaning up Yas North Beach

Africa & Middle East

Miral and Yas SeaWorld Research & Rescue: A United Effort for Marine Conservation

Abu Dhabi’s marine ecosystem is facing a myriad of challenges due to human ...

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