News & Updates

Born Free marked World Giraffe Day with some outstanding conservation news, and a high-profile event encouraging local schools to stand up for the world’s tallest animal.

Born Free is extremely concerned to see videos and images circulated featuring the African elephants at Shanghai Wild Animal Park, China.

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.

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?

Thanks for helping protect chimpanzees in Uganda. But, what happens when two wandering youngsters take a ‘wrong turn’, after leaving their birth communities?

Analysis highlights flaws in the Randomised Badger Culling Trial, which forms the basis of the policy to shoot British badgers.

We pay tribute to our charity’s remarkable Co-Founder Dame Virginia McKenna, on her 94th birthday.

Government ignores internal expert advice as it sanctions further killing of badgers.