News & Updates

After months of preparations and the generosity of our supporters, King starts his journey to our big cat sanctuary at Shamwari today. In the first of our series of blogs following his move, Born Free's Beth Brooks explains how we will get him to South Africa.

Born Free is extremely concerned at news that Botswana’s Parliament has adopted a motion asking the Government to lift the ban on elephant hunting.

Born Free’s Co-Founder & Trustee, Virginia McKenna OBE, recently visited Kanjoo School, near Meru National Park in Kenya, to officially open two new classrooms – made possible through funding by long-term Born Free supporters Dr Helen Pepper and Suzanne Clough.

Born Free's Sarah Locke explains why National Insect Week was the perfect opportunity to put Compassionate Conservation into action and appreciate all creatures great and small.

The sanctuary will be home to two 12-year=old beluga whales currently held at Changfeng Ocean World in Shanghai where they perform for visitors.

Born Free and experts have expressed outrage at the contents of a letter dated 8th June outlining plans for a number of endangered wild animals to be exported from the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Central Africa, to two Chinese zoos.

Born Free remembers Peter Clayton, a long-time Born Free supporter. 1963 - 2018

Born Free is saddened by the news that a lioness was shot dead after escaping from an enclosure at Planckendael Zoo in Belgium.

Emily Neil, Born Free's Field Conservation Assistant, encourages everyone to celebrate the tallest animal in the world and to raise awareness of its plight in the wild.

The Zambian government’s decision to permit the cull of more than 1,000 hippos over the next five years is starting to have a negative effect on the country’s reputation as a premier wildlife tourism destination, Born Free can reveal.