News & Updates

The latest news, blogs and features from Born Free.

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Commemorating World Turtle Day

Born Free’s Captivity Campaigns Information Coordinator Sarah Jefferson explains why she thinks these remarkable reptiles should swim free and brings us the latest on Genoveffa and Gavino – returned to the wild thanks to YOU.

Primate problems

Find out about the problems faced by captive primates, and see some of the reports we have received through Raise The Red Flag.

Raise the red flag: raffi, anthea & rikki’s story

Thanks to concerned locals and holidaymakers, Raffi, Anthea and Rikki, who spent years languishing in tiny cages in Spain, were the first captive lions and leopard rescued by Born Free.

Remembering elsa: 60 years on

Virginia McKenna OBE, Born Free's Co-Founder & Trustee, remembers Elsa the world-famous lioness on the 60th anniversary of her death.

10 facts about orangutans

Here’s 10 facts you need to know about this fascinating creature and the issues it is facing.

The global circus issue

Which countries still allow travelling circuses to use wild animals in their shows?

Tiger King: five important facts to take away

Karen Lauria at Born Free USA explains what we can learn from the shockumentary Tiger King

Meet the Pangolin Family

The Pangolin Family live in the tropical rainforests surrounding the Born Free-supported Sangha Pangolin Project in the Central African Republic.

Rescuing African grey parrots

In a guest blog, Laura Craddock, Fundraising and Communications Manager at the Born Free-supported Limbe Wildlife Centre, reveals how the centre is rescuing and rehabilitating endangered African grey parrots

Lions of lyon: wild animals as pets legislation

In March this year, a man was mauled to death by his pet lion. The man, from the Czech Republic, had kept the lion – as well as a lioness – in a cage in the back garden of his family home for three years.