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Zoo News

News about zoos, aquariums, and conservation organizations from all over the world.

Ramon, a young green sea turtle missing his left front flipper, swims just below the surface of deep blue open water shortly after release, his silhouette reflected in the underside of the surface above him.

Africa & Middle East

Eight Turtles Out of Plastic Bags, One a Flipper Short

Mr Zoo News

A hawksbill sea turtle lies head-down in a shallow body pit she has dug in pale coral sand on Ile Plate, her dark patterned carapace filling the frame, low green vegetation behind her.

Africa & Middle East

A Hawksbill Dug for Three Hours to Find the Right Spot

October 6, 2026

A tiger lies in dappled shade on a bank of red earth at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, forepaws resting on a rock, head turned to one side, dry branches behind it.

Africa & Middle East

The R27 Ticket Worked, So Pretoria Zoo Is Doing It Again

Promotional artwork for Boo at the Zoo reading BOO in large orange letters wrapped in cobwebs above the words at the Zoo in white, on a purple twilight landscape with a crescent moon behind a bare tree, a Ferris wheel at the right, two carved jack-o-lanterns in the foreground, one of them wearing a witch hat, and pale silhouettes of a camel, an anteater, a monkey and a hanging primate across the scene, with the Santa Ana Parks and Recreation and Santa Ana Zoo logos at lower left.

Events

Boo at the Zoo Turns 35 in Santa Ana

Nine people in orange and tan waders stand smiling on the deck of a boat on Long Island Sound behind a stack of encrusted lobster traps recovered from the seafloor, with a wooded shoreline behind them

Conservation Projects

4,000 Ghost Lobster Traps Out of Long Island Sound

A coalition that includes The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk has pulled more than ...

African penguins at a breeding colony

Africa & Middle East

A Seabird Hospital Took a Minister to Court

In March 2025 a South African court set aside a government decision on ...

A glowing carved sea turtle and pumpkin display lit up in an aquarium atrium

Events

Six Weeks of Pumpkins, Some of Them Underwater

Adventure Aquarium is putting pumpkins underwater again. Fintastic Pumpkin Glow runs September 18 ...

Two African lion cubs lie stretched out together on a grey fleece blanket in an indoor care room, one resting its head across the other's shoulder, both still showing the dark rosette spots on their faces and legs.

North America

Zoo Knoxville’s Lion Pride Is Now Five

Zoo Knoxville has two new African lion cubs. Sammie and Sika, both males, ...

A small European legless lizard, pale olive with fine dark banding and a visible eye and ear opening, curls over a person's closed hand

North America

Buffalo Zoo Hatches a Lizard That Looks Like a Snake

The Buffalo Zoo hatched a European legless lizard on August 1, the first ...

A row of shallow rectangular coral raceway tanks on metal frames stands under a green shade canopy beside a low white building.

Africa & Middle East

Africa’s First Coral Breeding Lab Has 65,000 New Corals

Africa’s first land-based coral breeding laboratory has produced roughly 800,000 coral embryos from ...

Four young gharials rest against one another on a mesh floor, their long narrow snouts lined with fine teeth and their tan bodies marked with dark bands

Conservation Projects

Eight Gharials Hatch in Fort Worth, a Fourth Straight Year

Eight gharials hatched at the Fort Worth Zoo this summer, between June 3 ...

Promotional graphic for Ice Age Invasion showing a woolly mammoth with long curved tusks and shaggy brown hair standing among cracked blue ice

Events

A Woolly Mammoth Moves In at the Metro Richmond Zoo

The Metro Richmond Zoo has put a woolly mammoth in the woods behind ...

African penguins standing together on a rocky shore

Africa & Middle East

Forty Zoos Are Paying for This Bird

The organization that rehabilitates oiled African penguins in South Africa publishes a wall ...

A scimitar-horned oryx standing in a grassy paddock

Conservation Projects

Eighteen Oryx in Virginia, and Why They Matter

There are eighteen scimitar-horned oryx at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute in Front ...

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