News & Updates

Born Free welcomes new Directive which will make trafficking wildlife in the EU increasingly risky for criminals.

The UK Border Force recently seized illegal wildlife products – including ivory and marine turtle eggs – as part of a global operation, yet wildlife crime convictions have dropped in the UK. Born Free is demanding more action from Government.

The global body that regulates international wildlife trade has officially reprimanded the United Kingdom and the European Union for their longstanding failure to register captive breeding facilities for the most heavily threatened and protected species.

Born Free co-hosted an event in the sidelines of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)’ Standing Committee meeting, aimed at persuading the wildlife trade regulating body of the need for a new international agreement to tackle wildlife trafficking.

As Born Free calls for tighter restrictions on international wildlife trade when regulatory body, CITES, meets in Geneva, we look at why CITES is important and how Born Free is involved.

A future without elephants is unimaginable. Born Free’s new appeal offers a lifeline for one of Africa’s most iconic species.

Born Free is encouraging progressive revision to current weak European legislation, to help prevent wildlife crime including trafficking of rare species.

A report prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) indicating growing momentum among governments for the development of a global agreement against wildlife trafficking, will be debated at a UN meeting in Vienna this week.

Born Free marks a global day devoted to celebrating birds and encouraging their protection. Our Rescue & Care Officer Flo Blackbourn reports. 

The conservation world has been focussed on Panama over the past two weeks, where the 19th Conference of the Parties to CITES, the global wildlife regulator, took place.