News & Updates

We’d love you to join Born Free’s Walk on the Wild Side challenge this August, and walk 23,000 steps for lions!

Born Free has raised more than £100,000 for wild animals in just seven days, thanks to supporters and the Green Match Fund.

For one week only, you can make your support go twice as far by donating to Born Free's Vanishing Futures matched funding campaign.

Great news – new cubs have been spotted in our homeland of Meru, Kenya. Just 23,000 wild lions remain, so each one counts. But, what happened when two adult males appeared?

With much sorrow, Born Free has bid farewell to Jora, our precious lion at our sanctuary in South Africa, who had been rescued with his brother from a cramped circus trailer.

Did you know there are lions living in India? The western coastal state of Gujarat, including Gir Forest, is the only place in the world where Asiatic lions still live in the wild.

One year on from arriving at our South African sanctuary, see how lion brothers Tsar and Jamil are settling in, in our new video.

We chat to a recent Masters graduate from the University of Nairobi, Kenya to discover how academic research can have a tangible conservation benefit, benefitting lions and local people.

With deep sadness we recently had to say goodbye to 17-year-old lioness Saida, a precious member of our rescued Lions of Lockdown pride, at our sanctuary in South Africa.

Our Policy Support Officer Frankie Osuch considers the use of wild animals in entertainment and the importance of computer-generated imagery (CGI) to portray wild animals on screen.