News & Updates

The latest news, blogs and features from Born Free.

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A close-up photo of a young cheetah lying on a bed of hay

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?
A grey parrot soaring through the trees

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.
An orca leaping out of the sea

Springer’s story: why dolphins belong in the sea

With half-term upon us, let’s encourage everyone not to visit dolphin shows. The true tale of a special orca reminds us why these sentient beings shouldn’t be kept in tanks.
A lioness snuggling with her cub

Born Free’s top 20 endangered species

It’s Endangered Species Day, a wonderful opportunity to tell you about some of the rare and threatened animals we help keep safe, thanks to your incredible support.
A hedgehog snuffling through grass at dusk

How to help a hedgehog

It’s Hedgehog Awareness Week so, with warmer weather upon us, here are a few ways that you can make your garden more hog friendly.
A beautiful leopard standing on long grass, looking to the side

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?
A photo of a beautiful male lion in close-up

In loving memory of Jora

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.
A young warthog stood next to a duiker

Meet Geoff the warthog

A tiny orphan has been given a second chance of life and two new companions, thanks to our long-term colleagues at Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, in Malawi, southern Africa.
Two beautiful lions standing in the dappled sunshine with a natural background

Tsar and Jamil: one year on

One year on from arriving at our South African sanctuary, see how lion brothers Tsar and Jamil are settling in, in our new video.
A baby vervet monkey sitting on a yellow blanket

How to not get eaten

Rescued baboons and vervets are learning how to avoid predators, thanks to the ingenuity of the Zambia Primate Project, and with Born Free’s support.