Africa & Middle East (page 5)

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

An adult elephant stands at a muddy waterhole inside a fenced stockade compound with a very small newborn calf tucked under her belly between her front and back legs, other elephants and a water tank visible behind them.

Africa & Middle East

An Orphan’s Daughter, and Tsavo’s 95th Grandcalf

At dawn on October 2, a wild elephant walked out of Tsavo East ...

Ten hikers in trail running kit stand together on wet rock holding a white flag with a red paw print reading Endangered Wildlife Trust, with a snow covered Drakensberg escarpment rising out of thick cloud behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Snow on Rhino Peak, and R1.2 Million Raised

Thirty people gathered at a hotel in the Underberg in September, in cold, ...

Five members of a veterinary team stand on a forest track in front of a black painted sign reading la clinique veterinaire, with dense green rainforest behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Cameroon’s Apes Wait Days for a Blood Test

When a gorilla at the Mefou sanctuary outside Yaounde falls ill, Ape Action ...

A felled tree trunk lying across a muddy forest track with long strips of bark torn away, the pale wood beneath exposed, and two researchers in the green undergrowth behind it.

Africa & Middle East

What Mount Elgon’s Elephants Eat When They Are Sick

Eight people from the Sabaot community around Mount Elgon, in western Kenya, have ...

An armadillo girdled lizard curled into a tight ring on lichen-covered rock, gripping its own spined tail in its jaws, the yellow and black markings of its throat visible and every scale raised into a point.

Africa & Middle East

Two Armored Lizards and a Pet Trade Problem

Threatened by a predator, an armadillo girdled lizard curls into a ring and ...

Three African wild dogs walk toward the camera across short green grass and bare red earth, ears up and heads low, with more of the pack blurred behind them among thorn scrub.

Africa & Middle East

Wild Dogs Came Back to Northern Tsavo

Twenty-five years ago, seeing a single African wild dog in northern Tsavo was ...

A young mountain gorilla sits upright in dense green undergrowth looking directly at the camera, with two other gorillas resting among the leaves behind and beside her.

Africa & Middle East

An Eight-Year-Old Gorilla Walked to a New Family

On July 15 the researchers and trackers who walk out to Rwanda’s mountain ...

An adult male cheetah walks left to right across short dry grassland in low sunlight, head turned toward the camera, with blurred pale grass and scattered scrub behind him.

Africa & Middle East

A Cheetah Paternity Test in a Namibian Lab

In August 2025 a male cheetah began appearing on camera traps on part ...

A long, brightly lit aquarium tank glowing blue in a dark room, holding several branching and plating coral colonies on a pale sand bed.

Africa & Middle East

A Seychelles Coral Lab Wins a Global Award

The coral spawning laboratory that Nature Seychelles and its partners built on Praslin ...

Four Kenya Wildlife Service staff in green uniforms and blue surgical gloves kneel and stand around an adult Maasai giraffe lying on her side on dry grassland, a soft rope running along her body, with scattered thorn trees behind.

Africa & Middle East

Who Pays to Cut a Snare Off a Giraffe

A giraffe stands up for most of its life. It rests standing, it ...

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