News & Updates

The latest news, blogs and features from Born Free.

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Two photos of children drawing pictures of Born Free's bronze lions

Celebrating our bronze pride

Born Free’s Community Engagement team joined local schools in Hampshire, UK to get creative and enjoy our bronze collection of life-size lions, at Chewton Glen Hotel & Spa.
A group of Kenyan schoolchildren wearing Giraffe Day T-shirts and holding workbooks

Celebrating giraffes in Kenya

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.
Two African elephants touch heads

Elephants at Shanghai Wild Animal Park: Born Free reaction

Born Free is extremely concerned to see videos and images circulated featuring the African elephants at Shanghai Wild Animal Park, China.
A photo of John Scanlon speaking at an event

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.
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 chimpanzee swinging in the treetops

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?
A close up portrait shot of a wild badger

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.
A portrait of Virginia McKenna at home with Born Free memorabilia

Happy Birthday Dame Virginia!

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