4 June 2013
Categories: Homepage News, Elephants Campaign News, CITES News
A report to the United Nations Security Council from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has highlighted the fact that elephant poaching is a growing driver of regional instability in Africa.
Rebel groups and warring factions...
3 June 2013
Categories: CITES News
Wildlife officials in Cameroon working with Born Free Foundation partner The Last Great Ape Organization arrested a woman on May 21st in possession of a huge haul of bush-meat
2 June 2013
Categories: Homepage News, Elephants Campaign News, CITES News
Born Free, Sunday Mirror and Government of Burkina Faso to Tackle Bloody Ivory Trade
29 May 2013
Categories: Homepage News, CITES News, Elephants Campaign News
Shocking new film, narrated by Will Travers, OBE, reveals the plight of the african elephant against the ivory trade in the Congo Basin
22 May 2013
Categories: CITES News
At an unprecedented international meeting in London, two generations of the British Royal Family, together with leading politicians, diplomats, government representatives, non-government organisations, conservationists and...
20 May 2013
Categories: Homepage News, CITES News
Born Free's CEO Will Travers blogging about the trade in wildlife and what can be done.
6 May 2013
Categories: Homepage News, CITES News
A Chinese national was arrested on April 28th in Limbe, Cameroon by wildlife law enforcement officials working in collaboration with Born Free partner LAGA as he boarded a local boat service bound for Nigeria. The man was...
4 May 2013
Categories: CITES News
Against a backdrop of plummeting elephant populations across Africa and calls by regional Non-governmental partners and even the US State Department for a more concerted and collaborative action to fight poaching, encouraging...
3 May 2013
Categories: Homepage News, Elephants Campaign News, CITES News
Within the last week a group of some of Central Africa’s most prominent conservation partners met in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, to address the ivory crisis decimating Central Africa’s elephant...
2 May 2013
Categories: Homepage News, Elephants Campaign News, CITES News
Born Free's CEO, Will Travers, on the sad news of the death of Desmond Hamill