Africa & Middle East (page 4)

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 orangutan with long reddish-brown hair lies on her back on pale striped bedding and straw, looking straight at the camera. A very young infant orangutan with sparse hair and a grey face lies on her chest, one small hand gripping her hair and its eyes closed. Green browse leaves on a cut branch lie beside her.

Africa & Middle East

Jerusalem Biblical Zoo’s First Orangutan Is Named Cahaya

The Tisch Family Zoological Gardens, which almost everybody calls the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, ...

A crowd of girls in bright orange polo shirts stand close together outdoors, laughing, with a dozen hands reaching in to hold a black planting bag containing a young tree seedling with broad green leaves. The shirts carry printed Portuguese text about girls' rights and ending early marriage, and a circular Gorongosa badge on the sleeve. Trees and open sky are behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Zoo Boise Funds the Girls’ Clubs That Just Turned Ten

On 11 October 2026 Gorongosa National Park marked the International Day of the ...

A pair of bar charts titled Predict context in elephants from EB family and Predict context in non-EB elephants. Teal, yellow and orange bars show classification accuracy between roughly 0.19 and 0.46 for single rumbles, chorus to chorus and single to chorus tests, each bar rising above a dashed predicted distribution baseline and marked with one, two or three asterisks for statistical significance.

Africa & Middle East

Oakland Zoo Helped Pay for the Elephant Chorus Study

When several elephants rumble at the same time, the overlapping sound is not ...

Satellite tracks of two rehabilitated sea turtles released off South Africa, one running north and west across the Atlantic and the other looping east into the Indian Ocean.

Africa & Middle East

The Tag on Nori the Green Turtle Has Gone Quiet

The satellite tag on Nori, a green turtle rehabilitated and released by the ...

Thirteen delegates pose in two rows at the Abuja launch of Nigeria's National Business Action Plan for Biodiversity, each holding a printed copy of the plan, in front of a banner reading strengthening business engagement in Nigeria's biodiversity agenda.

Africa & Middle East

Nigeria Hands Its Companies a Biodiversity Playbook

Nigeria now has a written set of instructions for companies that want to ...

Africa & Middle East

Nigeria’s Conservation PhD Grant Is Open Until December

The Nigerian Conservation Foundation has opened applications for the 2027 edition of the ...

Rows of students sit facing a Cheetah Conservation Fund veterinarian who is presenting beside a projected slide reading, when an animal gets sick, is the problem only about that one animal, in a classroom at the CCF Somaliland campus near Hargeisa.

Africa & Middle East

Hargeisa’s Vet Students Came to the Cheetahs This Time

Twenty-four students from the University of Hargeisa spent a day at the Cheetah ...

A large group of schoolchildren and adults standing on a sandy roadside below green coastal fynbos behind a pile of about a dozen full yellow refuse bags, with two white banners flying.

Africa & Middle East

53 Kilograms, and the Data That Came With It

Thirty-four volunteers walked the Kruismansbaai coastline at Danger Point on 19 September 2026 ...

A blue coach parked on paving with its door open, lettered STEAM Science Journey in English and Arabic alongside the logos of KFAS, The Scientific Center and Tam.

Africa & Middle East

Kuwait’s Science Bus Starts Another School Year

The Scientific Center Kuwait has sent its STEAM Bus back out for the ...

A fallen tree trunk lying across a muddy forest track with long strips of bark torn away, exposing pale wet wood, with researchers working in the vegetation behind it.

Africa & Middle East

What Mount Elgon’s Elephants Eat When They Are Sick

Eight people who have spent their lives around the elephants of Mount Elgon ...

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