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Africa & Middle East

Zoo news and information from Africa and the Middle East.

An African grass owl stands at a ground nest inside a tunnel of dense flattened grass at night, a rodent hanging from its beak, with two downy chicks visible in the shadows behind it.

Africa & Middle East

This Owl Will Not Nest in Just Any Grass

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Two women stand smiling on either side of a large printed map of Namibia pinned to a wall, the map marked with green protected areas and conservancy boundaries; the woman on the left wears a black Cheetah Conservation Fund shirt and the woman on the right a green WWF shirt.

Africa & Middle East

Namibia Counts Its Big Predators

September 27, 2026

An emaciated African penguin sits on a white towel inside a dark ventilated transport crate, its beak held open and a thin pale plastic band running through its mouth and around its neck.

Africa & Middle East

Two African Penguins, One Volunteer, One Week

An adult striped hyena wearing a pale tracking collar walks out from under a large sandstone overhang onto bare sand, with a small striped cub standing a few paces behind her looking toward the camera.

Africa & Middle East

A Striped Hyena Cub Is Born in a Saudi Reserve

A young zebra foal kicks up its hind legs as it runs through an open metal gate onto a sandy paddock, with an adult animal's legs visible in the background.

Africa & Middle East

The Orphan Zebra Who Chose the Giraffes

A zebra foal named Gözde lost her mother when she was three months ...

Four men in a clinic corridor, two of them carrying a plastic animal transport crate through a doorway toward a garden outside.

Africa & Middle East

İzmir Rebuilt a Jungle Cat’s Leg, Then Let It Go

A jungle cat that could not stand up when it arrived at İzmir ...

An adult Red-billed Tropicbird with a bright orange-red bill and finely barred black-and-white upperparts sits low on a nest scrape among fallen coconut husks and dry leaf litter, sheltered under vegetation.

Africa & Middle East

Seychelles Logs Its First Red-billed Tropicbird Nest

A pair of Red-billed Tropicbirds raised a chick on Platte, a half-square-kilometer island ...

A hawksbill turtle sits in a hollow she has dug among eroded coral rock at the top of a beach on Desroches Island, her worn grey-brown shell facing the camera and the reef and open sea behind her.

Africa & Middle East

A Tagged Hawksbill Returned to Desroches After 15 Years

A female hawksbill turtle hauled out on Desroches Island in the Seychelles outer ...

An adult white-morph Red-footed Booby with a pale blue bill stands beside a downy grey-and-white chick in a stick nest built in the branches of a casuarina tree, against a blue sky.

Africa & Middle East

A Booby Colony Goes From 15 Nests to 213 in Two Seasons

Red-footed Boobies have roosted on St Francois Atoll in the tens of thousands ...

Ngamba Island seen from the water on a clear day, with two large thatched conical roofs above a low stone sea wall, forest running back from the shoreline and the open blue water of Lake Victoria in the foreground.

Africa & Middle East

Chimpanzees Change Their Minds When Evidence Does

Put a treat under one of two boxes, give a chimpanzee a hint ...

An African manatee rests on the pale sandy floor of a large aquarium habitat, whiskered snout and paddle-shaped flippers toward the camera, with a second manatee lying behind it and a painted mangrove backdrop beyond.

Africa & Middle East

The Gift Shop That Pays for Manatee Work in Senegal

Most conservation funding traces in Africa end somewhere vague. This one ends at ...

A pangolin walks across bare red earth and low green weeds at the edge of a grassy clearing, its overlapping brown scales catching the light, while a gloved hand releases its long tail behind it.

Africa & Middle East

A Pangolin Release in Nigeria Names a Chicago Zoo

On May 31, 2024, a pangolin the Pangolin Conservation Guild Nigeria had named ...

SeaWorld Yas Island, Abu Dhabi entrance

Africa & Middle East

Dive Into a World of Marine Wonder at SeaWorld® Yas Island, Abu Dhabi – Opening on May 23, 2023!

A New Chapter in Marine Life Conservation: SeaWorld® Yas Island, Abu Dhabi Miral ...

Volunteers from Miral and Yas SeaWorld Research & Rescue cleaning up Yas North Beach

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Africa & Middle East

Miral and Yas SeaWorld Research & Rescue: A United Effort for Marine Conservation

Abu Dhabi’s marine ecosystem is facing a myriad of challenges due to human ...

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