News & Updates

As the year draws to a close, we look back at some of our biggest achievements. Here’s our 18 highlights of 2018…

Born Free has welcomed the passing of the Ivory Bill into UK law.

Born Free's reaction to news that 32,601 badgers were killed across 30 licensed culling zones in the west of England.

In a guest blog, Laura Craddock, Fundraising and Communications Manager at the Born Free-supported Limbe Wildlife Centre, explains how staff are preparing for their busiest time of the year.

It’s Olympics finals day today… but not the Olympics you think.

The Leopard Family lives at Born Free’s big cat sanctuary at Shamwari Private Game Reserve, South Africa.

Our handsome young lion King will celebrate his very first Christmas at our big cat rescue centre in South Africa this month.

Glen Vena, Animal Care Manager at our big cat rescue centre in South Africa gives his latest update.

The Born Free-supported Giraffe Conservation Foundation has successfully re-introduced eight West African giraffe to the Gadabedji Biosphere Reserve in Niger, after an absence of almost 50 years.

Born Free’s carnivore and community co-existence programme, Pride of Amboseli, has been working in the Amboseli ecosystem since 2010 to reduce human-lion conflict and promote co-existence between humans and carnivores. The key way that we address human-lion conflict is by building predator-proof bomas.