Africa & Middle East (page 5)

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

Four people on a grass airstrip fringed by coconut palms assemble a large green conical hopper mounted on a wheeled frame, part of the equipment for the Alphonse Atoll invasive species eradication.

Africa & Middle East

187 Tortoises Moved So the Rats Could Go

Before the Island Conservation Society could begin removing rats from Alphonse Atoll, it ...

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

Through August, 140 children from two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of the ...

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

A veterinary team in Tsavo got a wire snare off a wild giraffe ...

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

Two Israeli marine inspectors put their heads underwater off the western Galilee coast ...

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

An orphaned rhino calf at Care for Wild drinks 16 to 18 liters ...

Africa & Middle East

69 Orphaned Elephants, 20 Back in the Wild

Zambia had no facility capable of raising an orphaned elephant calf when Rachael ...

A large group of conference delegates stands and crouches together for a group photograph in front of a screen reading IZE International Zoo Educators Conference Cape Town 2026.

Africa & Middle East

187 Educators, 35 Countries, One Aquarium

For five days in October the global conversation about how zoos and aquariums ...

A large group of teenage students and aquarium staff stand and crouch together on a shell-strewn beach on South Africa’s West Coast.

Africa & Middle East

42 Teenagers Spent a Week Being Marine Biologists

On a Saturday morning in late September, 42 Grade 10 learners walked into ...

A Cheetah Conservation Fund handler stands on a sand track beside a seated scat detection dog, next to a game fence in rural Namibia.

Africa & Middle East

The Cheetah Count Just Dropped Below 7,000

For years the Cheetah Conservation Fund has said the same sentence: fewer than ...

A lioness stands on a low rock in dry thornbush scrub in the Tsavo Conservation Area of southeastern Kenya, in late afternoon light.

Africa & Middle East

Two Villages, One Decline, Two Explanations

Ask twelve villages around the Serengeti whether there is less bushmeat around than ...

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