Africa & Middle East (page 7) - ZooReviews

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

Africa & Middle East

A Snared Lion in Meru, and the Team That Cut Him Free

A young male lion in Kenya’s Meru National Park was found with a ...

A mountain bongo bull stands in dense green forest looking straight at the camera, his deep chestnut coat marked with narrow white stripes, long spiralling horns rising above his head and a pale chevron between his eyes.

Africa & Middle East

Kenya’s Mountain Bongo Plan Leans on Zoo-Bred Herds

Kenya has a new plan to save its rarest large mammal, and the ...

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

An African grass owl will not nest in just any grass. Across eight ...

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

Namibia now has roughly 1,200 cheetahs, somewhere between 130 and 350 African wild ...

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

Two critically endangered African penguins are recovering at the African Penguin and Seabird ...

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

In August 2026, field teams watching a den in the NEOM Nature Reserve ...

An Amur tiger cub lowers her head to eat from a pale slab of frozen meat marked BURSA on the grass, with the legs of an adult tiger standing behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Turkey’s Only Amur Tiger Cub Reaches 100 Days

Bursa Zoo marked the hundredth day of an Amur tiger cub called Victoria ...

A mountain gazelle stands with her head lowered to the floor of a corrugated metal shed at night, among scattered timber, feed bowls and debris, with poultry roosting on a frame behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Pregnant Gazelle Found Caged Near Hebron, Now at Safari

A mountain gazelle in the late stages of pregnancy was found locked in ...

Three young trainees in blue mechanic's overalls and caps crouching on the ground beside a pickup truck, working together on a leaf-spring assembly with hand tools.

Africa & Middle East

Ol Pejeta Is Training Laikipia’s Next Mechanics

Ten trainee mechanics are currently working out of the Kamok garage at Ol ...

A young orphaned elephant standing in a shallow muddy waterhole with its trunk curled up, surrounded by the legs and bodies of older elephants in the herd.

Africa & Middle East

The Voi Kids: Tsavo’s Drought Orphans, Four Years On

In the second half of 2022, drought emptied the southern sector of Kenya’s ...

1...678...13