Africa & Middle East (page 3)

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

A Western leopard toad sits in a pair of cupped human hands, its back marked with dark brown patches outlined in bright yellow.

Africa & Middle East

A Million Photographs, and 130 Toads Under One Road

Six concrete tunnels run under Peninsula Road where it cuts through the False ...

Seven delegates stand together at the CBD COP17 venue in Yerevan, two of them holding a certificate printed with the word Nigeria.

Africa & Middle East

$50,000 to Count the Conservation Outside Nigeria’s Parks

Nigeria went to the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on ...

Rangers in green uniforms haul on a thick strap running to an adult elephant caked in mud and sitting in a churned mud pan, with a tractor on the dry ground behind them under a blue sky.

Africa & Middle East

An Elephant and Her Calf, Stuck Fast in Drying Mud

Drying mud is not soft ground. As a waterhole or a river pan ...

A caregiver in a pale T-shirt sits on the floor of a padded green-walled boma beside a young white rhino calf draped in a striped crocheted blanket, with an intravenous line running down from the ceiling above them.

Africa & Middle East

She Arrived Too Weak to Stand. Now She Weighs 99.2 kg

A white rhino calf about two months old was rescued in South Africa ...

Two adult African elephants stand in the dust at the Ithumba stockades with a newborn calf sheltered between their legs.

Africa & Middle East

Chyulu Nannied Lulu in 2018. Now Lulu Nannies Her Calf.

An elephant named Chyulu walked out of the bush at Ithumba on the ...

Africa & Middle East

Saudi Arabia’s Vulture Restaurants Get a Rulebook

Saudi Arabia’s National Center for Wildlife has published the Kingdom’s first national guide ...

Around forty delegates to the National Sea Turtle Workshop stand and sit together for a group photograph in a timber-framed room at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town.

Africa & Middle East

Forty-Five People and One Plan for South Africa’s Turtles

South Africa has been protecting sea turtles on its nesting beaches since 1963. ...

Three dorcas gazelles rest and stand among pale rocks beneath an eroded desert cliff in the Negev, two of them looking directly at the camera with their lyre-shaped horns raised.

Africa & Middle East

Israel Counted 1,387 Gazelles in the Negev

Over four days this autumn, dozens of Israel Nature and Parks Authority staff ...

A very small elephant calf stands among several larger orphaned elephants on red earth, dwarfed by the legs and bodies around it, at a Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant orphanage in Kenya.

Africa & Middle East

A Matriarch Died at 53 and Her Calf Would Not Leave

A one-year-old African elephant calf is being raised at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s ...

Six bonobos sit along two felled logs fitted with metal puzzle boxes at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, several of them holding thin sticks used to reach food inside the puzzles.

Africa & Middle East

Bonobos Are Being Watched to See Who Copies Whom

At Lola ya Bonobo, the world’s only bonobo sanctuary, a team of researchers ...

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