News & Updates

Born Free has been championing wildlife at a key international trade meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, doing everything we could to secure best possible outcomes for elephants, rhinos, cheetahs and more.

Intervention from Born Free prevents the sale of an item containing a higher percentage of ivory than the Ivory Act allows.

Born Free celebrates as the UK Ivory Act extension enforces a near total ban on the import, export and selling of hippo, narwhal, sperm whale and orca ivory.

Born Free celebrates the inclusion of additional ivory-bearing species including hippos, narwhals, sperm whales and killer whales to the Act.

DEFRA has announced that it has tabled legislation in Parliament to extend the UK’s ban on elephant ivory trade to other ivory-bearing species, specifically hippos, narwhals, sperm whales and orcas.

Latest government figures from South Africa reveal an increase in rhino killing since 2020.

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

Our most recent UK ivory investigation reveals an encouraging reduction in ivory listings, but there is still work to be done.

Born Free applauds today’s announcement by the UK Government of its intention to extend its domestic ban on ivory trade to hippos, walruses, narwhals, sperm whales, and orcas.

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.