Africa & Middle East (page 8) - ZooReviews

Africa & Middle East

Zoo news and information from Africa and the Middle East.

Several hundred delegates to the 2026 WAZA annual conference stand and wave together for a group photograph in front of the arched brick and glass facade of Cologne Zoo.

Africa & Middle East

A Goal for 2030, and Cape Town in 2027

Mr Zoo News

Two Blue Cranes, pale blue-grey birds with long necks, white crowns and dark trailing wing plumes, stand calling at the edge of a harvested field in South Africa.

Africa & Middle East

547 People, Four Days, and 18,888 Cranes

November 7, 2026

Two Endangered Wildlife Trust field staff stand in dry bushveld holding up about ten numbered GPS tracking collars for lions.

Africa & Middle East

Thirty Lions, and the Collars That Follow Them

A sedated adult cheetah lies on dry grass bedding inside a blue metal transport crate while a conservation staff member in khaki uniform steadies it, with a white pickup truck alongside.

Africa & Middle East

Two Male Cheetahs Fill a Gap Pilanesberg Made

A man leans over the side of an inflatable boat to lower a young green sea turtle into open Mediterranean water while two children and a woman watch from the bow.

Africa & Middle East

Cutting the Plastic Off Can Kill the Turtle

If you find a sea turtle on an Israeli beach with plastic wound ...

A light aircraft of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Aerial Unit stands on a grass airstrip in Kenya with rangers and a vehicle beside it, and a zebra grazing behind the wing.

Africa & Middle East

A Wildebeest Broke Her Snare Free. That Made It Worse.

Scouts from the Nasaru Olosho Conservancy, in the Amboseli ecosystem of southern Kenya, ...

An adult Egyptian vulture with white plumage and a bright yellow face stands on a rock in a flowering meadow, beside the LIFE EV Safe Return project title and a strip of the fifteen partner organisation logos.

Africa & Middle East

A Vulture Saved in Bulgaria Can Still Die in Chad

Every autumn the Egyptian vultures that breed on the cliffs of Bulgaria, Greece, ...

A Nature Seychelles field officer in a blue shirt bending over a nesting hawksbill turtle in beach vegetation on Cousin Island, the turtle part buried in pale sand.

Africa & Middle East

Six Knitters, One Hawksbill, and Cousin Island

Nature Seychelles has spent decades counting hawksbill turtles coming ashore on Cousin Island ...

Two young orphaned elephants coated in red Tsavo dust, one standing on a mound of red earth beside acacia scrub and one lying down in the dust beside her.

Africa & Middle East

Speared at Two, Swimming at Three: the Rescue of Sibu

The Kenya Wildlife Service found her on January 19, 2026, near Roaring Rocks ...

Four downy grey-brown African penguin chicks sitting together on a pale pink towel in an indoor nursery at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, one wearing an orange flipper tag.

Africa & Middle East

Four African Penguin Chicks Hatch Inland, at Pretoria

Four African penguin chicks have hatched at South Africa’s National Zoological Garden in ...

A large olive-green African bullfrog sits low on dark soil and bark litter, its broad folded body and heavy-lidded eyes filling the frame, in a vivarium enclosure at the national zoo in Rabat.

Africa & Middle East

Rabat’s Vivarium Takes In 72 Reptiles and Amphibians

The national zoo in Rabat has taken in 72 animals of 21 species ...

A single African wild dog standing alone on bare ground in dry golden bush, head turned back over its shoulder, with no other dogs in sight.

Africa & Middle East

A Wild Dog Walked 4,126 Kilometers and Found No Mate

Three African wild dogs left their pack in Zambia’s Kafue National Park in ...

A two-panel photograph. On the left, volunteers in sun hats lean over an outdoor table covered with large sheets of paper, sketching and writing. On the right, two workers in green overalls and hard hats load cut invasive brush onto the back of a pickup truck.

Africa & Middle East

Fifty Disney Volunteers and a Workshop on Vultures

More than 50 Disney Africa employees spent a day in September at the ...

A large group of young hikers in caps and beanies standing close together and laughing on a rocky outcrop at Medike Nature Reserve, with the wooded slopes of the Soutpansberg rising behind them.

Africa & Middle East

A Single Guided Hike Became a Hiking Club

Twenty-three young people walked up to a waterfall and a wall of ancient ...

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