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Don’t Pet Me!
Born Free is calling for greater regulation of wild animals kept as pets in Scotland
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Alda and Ginny: A year at Shamwari
It's been a year since Alda and Ginny arrived at our Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa, but how did they settle in at their forever home?
Join us to celebrate Footsteps to Freedom 2026
Tickets now available for our spectacular black-tie ball… don’t miss out!
Meet wildlife crime expert John Scanlon: long read interview
Our Head of Policy Dr Mark Jones chats to his long-term associate John Scanlon AO, Chair of the Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime – founded with our help on 5th June 2020.
Update on Blue, the orphan cheetah
Last year, you helped rescue a badly injured cheetah cub in Ethiopia. Just a few months old, Blue had already endured so much. Could her life be turned around?
The city chimps
Thanks for helping protect chimpanzees in Uganda. But, what happens when two wandering youngsters take a ‘wrong turn’, after leaving their birth communities?
New paper undermines Government’s rationale for badger culling
Analysis highlights flaws in the Randomised Badger Culling Trial, which forms the basis of the policy to shoot British badgers.
Happy Birthday Dame Virginia!
We pay tribute to our charity’s remarkable Co-Founder Dame Virginia McKenna, on her 94th birthday.
More misery for badgers as Labour approves mass shooting
Government ignores internal expert advice as it sanctions further killing of badgers.
Feathered friendship
Today is World Parrot Day and Born Free is joining the celebrations with some grey-t news! Dr Andrea Donaldson, from our Rescue & Care team, reports.