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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

An adult female Grauer's gorilla sitting on the forest floor among bamboo, cradling a very small dark infant against her chest with both arms, with the silver back of another gorilla visible behind her.

Africa & Middle East

Rescued Gorilla Lulingu Gives Birth in Virunga

A Grauer’s gorilla who was taken from her family by wildlife traffickers as ...

A large group of volunteers, most of them schoolchildren in warm clothing, stand on a gravel verge behind a pile of full yellow waste bags, with two banners and green coastal fynbos on the slope behind them.

Africa & Middle East

What 34 Volunteers Took Off One South African Beach

Thirty-four volunteers walked the Kruismansbaai coastline at Danger Point on September 19, 2026 ...

Four men carry a long wooden Kenya Top Bar beehive with a metal roof beneath a mango tree, with two women watching from the grass behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Twenty-Nine Beehives Between Ugandan Farms and Forest

Twenty-nine beehives now hang along the boundary between farmland and forest reserve in ...

An all-black siamang walks upright along a rope strung between trees, one arm raised overhead and a piece of fruit in its mouth, with sunlit green foliage behind.

Africa & Middle East

Four Gibbons Arrive at Izmir’s Natural Life Park

Four apes moved into İzmir Doğal Yaşam Parkı this summer, and between them ...

A sedated adult bull elephant lying on its side in dry grass beside a red dirt track, with rangers and veterinary staff in green uniforms standing at its head, a field vehicle to the left and a loading machine behind.

Africa & Middle East

Two Fence-Breaking Bulls Get a New Address in Tsavo

On September 15 and again on September 16, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and ...

A camera trap housing destroyed by fire, its upper half melted into a mass of blackened bubbled plastic, with the scorched keypad and OK button still intact below.

Africa & Middle East

What a Namibian Wildfire Did to the Animals Around It

In October 2021 a wildfire burned roughly 650 square kilometers of savanna in ...

Five people standing barefoot in shallow water on a kelp-strewn rocky shore at low tide, bending to look at something in a pool, with a blue sea and mountains behind them.

Africa & Middle East

A Cape Town Aquarium’s Ocean Holiday Goes Global

An idea that started at an aquarium in Cape Town is now a ...

Africa & Middle East

17.6 Million Mangroves Later, Lamu’s Forest Is Coming Back

Six years ago the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust put a small team of Kenyan ...

An Ol Pejeta Conservancy ranger in camouflage uniform and beret standing in open grassland, looking toward the camera, with a rhino grazing in the grass behind him and acacia scrub on the horizon.

Africa & Middle East

Kenya’s Rhino Recovery Gets Its Own Film Premiere

On Friday, September 26, a feature documentary about the people who keep Kenya’s ...

The cover of a scientific report titled Status of Coral Reefs of the World 2025, white type over an underwater photograph of a shallow reef with small fish, carrying the logos of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, the Australian Government, the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the International Coral Reef Initiative.

Africa & Middle East

Coral Reefs Are Running Out of Time Between Heatwaves

The largest assessment of coral reefs ever assembled landed on August 31, 2026, ...

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