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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

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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

Six North African ostriches stride across bare sandy ground beside a wire mesh fence in dry scrub, two of them at a run in the foreground, with thorn bushes and a hazy sky behind.

Africa & Middle East

Eight Ostriches Walked Back Into Niger

At 2:02 in the afternoon on September 2, 2026, eight North African ostriches ...

A young western lowland gorilla with dark fur and brown eyes sits against the chest of a person in a green jacket, looking toward the camera, with broad green leaves behind her.

Africa & Middle East

A Rescued Gorilla Flew From Lagos to Pointe-Noire

On September 21, a young gorilla named Bili was loaded into a crate ...

A satellite map of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans with two plotted tracks: a green line running from the southern Cape far up the Atlantic toward West Africa, and an orange line looping east from the Cape across the southwestern Indian Ocean.

Africa & Middle East

Two Turtles, 19,000 Kilometers, One Mystery Route

Two sea turtles rehabilitated and released by the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle ...

A young gorilla with dense black fur and reddish-brown eyes looks slightly away from the camera, framed by broad green leaves and a pale plant stem in dappled forest light.

Africa & Middle East

445 Square Kilometers of Congolese Forest, Legally Theirs

On World Gorilla Day, September 24, 2026, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund announced ...

About a dozen Kenya Wildlife Service rangers in green overalls brace against a blindfolded rhino in dry leaf-littered bush, guiding it forward with a thick rope while an armed ranger watches from the right.

Africa & Middle East

Kenya’s Rhino Sanctuary Outgrew Itself

On World Rhino Day, September 22, 2026, Kenya launched the expanded Tsavo West ...

A man in a cap and aviation headset sits in the front of a helicopter over dry bushveld, holding a Cape Vulture upright against his chest with one hand around its neck, the bird's pale hooked bill and dark eye turned toward the window.

Africa & Middle East

Sixteen Vultures Went Back to Their Nests

On August 28, 2026, the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Birds of Prey Unit was ...

Two elephants stand at a small waterhole in dry bush country, photographed from the far side of a multi-strand electric fence whose wires and post cross the frame.

Africa & Middle East

Ol Pejeta Is Rebuilding Its Fence Shorter, on Purpose

The usual answer to an elephant that walks through a fence is a ...

A humpback whale breaches clear of calm blue water, its pale underside and long white pectoral flipper thrown out sideways and water streaming off its dark back, with the layered tan cliffs of the Omani coast rising behind it.

Africa & Middle East

The Humpbacks That Never Leave the Arabian Sea

Every humpback whale in the world makes a long seasonal migration between cold ...

Two cheetahs rest in dry woodland behind a screen of yellow and orange leaves, the nearer animal looking toward the camera and the second partly hidden behind it.

Africa & Middle East

Cheetahs Are Back in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley

Six cheetahs have been flown from South Africa into a remote southern corner ...

A vervet monkey sits in the fork of a tree in bright sunlight, one hand raised to its mouth, surrounded by broad green leaves and thin branches.

Africa & Middle East

A Vervet Troop Goes Back to the Wild in Malawi

A whole troop of vervet monkeys went back into a Malawian national park ...

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