News & Updates

In memory of Richard Bonfield - Born Free's Poet-in-Residence from 2009 until 2017.

Bill To Ban Big Cat Keeping In The US Could Pave The Way For Positive Change

First Confirmed Reports Of COVID-19 Among Gorillas

In response to the UK government’s call for evidence on the extent of the trade in shark fins to, from, and within the UK, Born Free has called for a total UK ban.

Born Free is leading a coalition of 60 wildlife organisations, scientists and veterinarians, who are calling on Namibia’s authorities to abandon plans to sell off as many as 170 live wild elephants to as yet unknown destinations within or outside the country.

Born Free Urges UK Government To Make Good On Plans To Ban Pet Primates

A new initiative involving 20 of the world’s leading conservation organisations, including Born Free, today issued an unprecedented joint Declaration to the G20 calling for urgent action to invest in nature to protect biodiversity and avoid future pandemics.

Born Free outraged as three wolves are killed to make room for a ‘new and modern area’.

Long-awaited proposals to change the EU’s lax rules on ivory trade fail to go anywhere near far enough to dis-incentivise further elephant poaching.

After being rescued from a failed zoo in Southern Spain and moved to the Born Free Rescue Section at Panthera Africa Big Cat Sanctuary, supported by IAG Cargo and British Airways Holidays, lionesses Alpha and Cora celebrate one year in their ‘forever home’.