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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

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 light aircraft of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Aerial Unit stands on a grass airstrip in Kenya with rangers and a vehicle beside it, and a zebra grazing behind the wing.

Africa & Middle East

A Wildebeest Broke Her Snare Free. That Made It Worse.

Scouts from the Nasaru Olosho Conservancy, in the Amboseli ecosystem of southern Kenya, ...

An adult Egyptian vulture with white plumage and a bright yellow face stands on a rock in a flowering meadow, beside the LIFE EV Safe Return project title and a strip of the fifteen partner organisation logos.

Africa & Middle East

A Vulture Saved in Bulgaria Can Still Die in Chad

Every autumn the Egyptian vultures that breed on the cliffs of Bulgaria, Greece, ...

A Nature Seychelles field officer in a blue shirt bending over a nesting hawksbill turtle in beach vegetation on Cousin Island, the turtle part buried in pale sand.

Africa & Middle East

Six Knitters, One Hawksbill, and Cousin Island

Nature Seychelles has spent decades counting hawksbill turtles coming ashore on Cousin Island ...

Two young orphaned elephants coated in red Tsavo dust, one standing on a mound of red earth beside acacia scrub and one lying down in the dust beside her.

Africa & Middle East

Speared at Two, Swimming at Three: the Rescue of Sibu

The Kenya Wildlife Service found her on January 19, 2026, near Roaring Rocks ...

Four downy grey-brown African penguin chicks sitting together on a pale pink towel in an indoor nursery at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, one wearing an orange flipper tag.

Africa & Middle East

Four African Penguin Chicks Hatch Inland, at Pretoria

Four African penguin chicks have hatched at South Africa’s National Zoological Garden in ...

A single African wild dog standing alone on bare ground in dry golden bush, head turned back over its shoulder, with no other dogs in sight.

Africa & Middle East

A Wild Dog Walked 4,126 Kilometers and Found No Mate

Three African wild dogs left their pack in Zambia’s Kafue National Park in ...

A two-panel photograph. On the left, volunteers in sun hats lean over an outdoor table covered with large sheets of paper, sketching and writing. On the right, two workers in green overalls and hard hats load cut invasive brush onto the back of a pickup truck.

Africa & Middle East

Fifty Disney Volunteers and a Workshop on Vultures

More than 50 Disney Africa employees spent a day in September at the ...

A large group of young hikers in caps and beanies standing close together and laughing on a rocky outcrop at Medike Nature Reserve, with the wooded slopes of the Soutpansberg rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East

A Single Guided Hike Became a Hiking Club

Twenty-three young people walked up to a waterfall and a wall of ancient ...

Five cheetahs walking in a loose line across pale, tussocky grassland scattered with low green shrubs, with the rocky slopes of a Namibian mountain range rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East

The Case for Judging a Dryland by Its Cheetahs

If you want to know whether a dryland is healthy, count the cheetahs ...

Ramon, a young green sea turtle missing his left front flipper, swims just below the surface of deep blue open water shortly after release, his silhouette reflected in the underside of the surface above him.

Africa & Middle East

Eight Turtles Out of Plastic Bags, One a Flipper Short

Eight sea turtles that spent the summer tangled in plastic bags on Israel’s ...

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