Elephants firebombed in india
Born Free is concerned to hear that villagers in India have thrown firebombs and rocks at a mother elephant and her calf to chase them away from their community in Bishnupur, West Bengal, north east India.
News & Updates
The latest news, blogs and features from Born Free.
Living with tigers
What would you do if you went to draw water from your village well and found a tiger trapped inside? Or if you entered the kitchen in the hotel where you worked and came face to face with a leopard?
Born free fights extinction through technology
Born Free is partnering with the British International Education Association’s 2019 International STEM Youth Innovation Competition.
Where they belong
Penny Banham, Born Free’s Conservation Projects Officer, examines the promise and perils of translocating wild animals.
Land of the tiger
Satpuda, in the heart of central India, is a stronghold for India’s estimated 2,000 remaining wild tigers.
Wild cats are not purrfect pets
A breeder in Scotland selling dangerous wild cats, including servals and caracals, as pets recently caught the attention of the media.
Protecting tigers
A century ago, there were an estimated 100,000 tigers across Asia. Since then, numbers have collapsed by 96% to just 4,000.
Born free’s living with tigers programme: all you need to know
Born Free’s Living with Tigers programme supports a network of Indian NGOs to help conserve wild tigers and find solutions to human-wildlife conflict across the Satpuda region of central India.
Farewell alam
We are heartbroken to report the sad passing of Alam the leopard who died recently following a short illness.
Born free’s preview of 2019
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking forward to a new year that is already proving to be bigger and better than 2018. So what can you expect from Born Free in 2019?