Africa & Middle East (page 4)

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 hawksbill sea turtle lies head-down in a shallow body pit she has dug in pale coral sand on Ile Plate, her dark patterned carapace filling the frame, low green vegetation behind her.

Africa & Middle East

A Hawksbill Dug for Three Hours to Find the Right Spot

A hawksbill sea turtle spent three hours on a beach on Ile Plate, ...

A tiger lies in dappled shade on a bank of red earth at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, forepaws resting on a rock, head turned to one side, dry branches behind it.

Africa & Middle East

The R27 Ticket Worked, So Pretoria Zoo Is Doing It Again

The National Zoological Garden of South Africa, the Pretoria Zoo, is running its ...

A conference hall filled with delegates seated in white-draped chairs, facing stage screens showing an African savanna graphic and the word WELCOME.

Africa & Middle East

Too Rich for Aid, and Out of Money for Birds

The chief executive of a conservation organization does not usually end a statement ...

A bull elephant with very long curved tusks standing on green grass at the edge of a muddy waterway, with storks and egrets spread along the far bank and a buffalo in the background.

Africa & Middle East

Tsavo Built 13 Sand Dams Instead of Boreholes

Putting water into a dry place looks like the simplest conservation decision there ...

Africa & Middle East

Twenty-Two Collars, and a Flight Back to Niassa

Twenty-two vultures, four species, one set of hands that had never done it ...

An aerial view looking down on a sedated elephant suspended head down from a blue crane arm above a white flatbed truck, with about fifteen rangers and staff standing around the vehicle on bare red soil in dry thorn scrub.

Africa & Middle East

The Arrowhead Was Lodged in the Bull’s Eye Socket

For months, a one-eyed African savanna elephant bull had been causing trouble around ...

A lioness walks from right to left across short dry red-brown grass in low golden light, with open scrub and bare ground stretching to a flat horizon behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Tsavo’s Six Cats, and the Zoo Money That Is Not Theirs

Tsavo holds six wild cat species. Three have population baselines, three have none, ...

Three people in navy uniforms and high-visibility vests kneel on the wet concrete floor of a dry dock, working a Cape fur seal into a dark mesh net, with the red hull of a vessel and yellow scaffolding rising behind them and a fourth worker further down the dock.

Africa & Middle East

Cape Fur Seals Trapped in a Dry Dock, All Four Out

Four Cape fur seals swam into a Cape Town dry dock before it ...

Two people seen from behind, standing on a grassy bank above a wide brown river with day packs on and binoculars raised, looking across at a low far bank of sand, scrub and scattered trees under a pale early morning sky.

Africa & Middle East

Two Teams, 50 Kilometers, One River Counted

Two teams of researchers walked more than 50 kilometers each, on opposite banks ...

A black-backed jackal walks left to right through low green bush at night, lit by a camera trap flash, with fallen pale deadwood and dark trees behind it.

Africa & Middle East

Namibia’s Jackals Are Not Eating the Sheep

Farmers in the Okakarara District Communal Area of central-eastern Namibia blame black-backed jackals ...

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