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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

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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

Salima Niyigena stands at a wood-panelled podium gesturing toward a large screen that shows her presentation title slide, which reads 'Oral processing behaviors of golden monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis spp. kandti) from the Volcanoes National park in Rwanda' above a photograph of three golden monkeys on a rocky slope.

Africa & Middle East

The Rwandan Scientist Studying How Golden Monkeys Chew

Salima Niyigena studies how golden monkeys chew. In September she took that work ...

Abby Cadabby on the left and Elmo on the right lean in close on either side of a young African elephant's head and trunk at an outdoor enclosure, with hills and trees behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Elmo Flew to Kenya to Meet the Elephant He Adopted

Sesame Street and the Great Elephant Adventure, a crossover between PBS’s Nature and ...

A sedated mandrill lies on a padded veterinary table with an anesthetic tube at his muzzle and a towel under his head, his red and blue ridged face toward the camera. An imaging console screen stands in the foreground showing the X-ray software and the study identifiers.

Africa & Middle East

Mefou’s Vets Can Finally See Inside Their Own Patients

Until last week, a gorilla at the Mefou sanctuary outside Yaounde who needed ...

A hawksbill turtle swimming at the surface of a rehabilitation tank, seen from above and in front. Her patterned brown and amber shell and a single raised front flipper are in frame, with the pointed hawk-like beak that gives the species its name clearly visible.

Africa & Middle East

Amber Lost a Flipper Long Before She Washed Ashore

The subadult hawksbill turtle that washed ashore at Betty’s Bay on September 7 ...

An aerial view of several hundred wildebeest moving in loose columns across golden floodplain grassland that runs flat to the horizon under a pale sky.

Africa & Middle East

Twenty-Five Years On, Liuwa Renews the Deal

African Parks now manages 23 protected areas across 12 African countries. All of ...

Four gemsbok standing in low green Kalahari scrub beneath a broad rainbow and tall cumulus cloud. The nearest animal faces the camera with long straight horns and a black and white face pattern.

Africa & Middle East

The Kalahari’s Oldest Border Park Gets 2.5 Million Euros

The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park was the first of its kind in southern Africa, ...

A pack of five African wild dogs on a sandy track in open woodland at low sun. The lead animal walks toward the camera in sharp focus, with large rounded ears and a mottled tan, black and white coat; four more dogs stand and walk out of focus behind it.

Africa & Middle East

Two Packs, Twenty Wild Dogs, One Zimbabwean Park

Twenty African wild dogs went into Matusadona National Park in February, in two ...

An aerial view of several hundred Nile lechwe running in long lines across a shallow flooded plain in the Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape, dark-coated males scattered among tawny females.

Africa & Middle East

Six Million Antelope Just Got a World Heritage Listing

The migration that African Parks and the government of South Sudan describe as ...

A black rhino with its horn cut back walks across the sand of a wooden holding boma at Matusadona National Park, photographed through a viewing slot, with a second rhino standing behind the poles.

Africa & Middle East

The Rhinos Came Back, and Nobody Will Say How Many

Black rhino are back in Matusadona National Park, on the southern shore of ...

A man leans over the side of an inflatable boat to lower a young green sea turtle into open Mediterranean water while two children and a woman watch from the bow.

Africa & Middle East

Cutting the Plastic Off Can Kill the Turtle

If you find a sea turtle on an Israeli beach with plastic wound ...

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