News & Updates

Born Free has launched a new appeal – Elsa Italia – to provide lifetime care for an ex-circus lioness in Italy.

Born Free’s Beth Brooks joins our Kenya field team to find out what it’s like to monitor the lions of Meru National Park

Rescued from the barren confines of a travelling circus in Sardinia in 2014, Elsa now relaxes and enjoys the beautiful views of the Tuscan landscape.

A troop of 21 vervet monkeys, rescued and rehabilitated by the Born Free-supported Zambia Primate Project, has been successfully released into the wild.

Born Free is deeply saddened to hear that our long-standing friend, and national treasure, Nicholas Parsons CBE, has died aged 96.

Born Free doesn’t just monitor lions in Meru, as Tim Oloo, Born Free Kenya’s Country Manager explains.

The shocking reports and pictures of emaciated animals, particularly lions, at a zoo in Khartoum, Sudan, have generated a great deal of international concern, and a number of animal organisations have been approached to investigate and resolve the situation.

Ahead of a major wildlife conservation meeting due to take place in India next month, Dr Mark Jones, Born Free’s Head of Policy, explains why when it comes to wildlife conservation, collaboration is everything.

Read the latest update from two organisations at the illegal wildlife trade's front line.

Great apes living outside of protected areas are often ignored by research and conservation.