News & Updates

Born Free calls on the Zambian government to abandon its plans to cull hippos on the Luangwa River because published scientific research, conducted by the Zambia Wildlife Authority clearly shows that previous culls of hippo did not significantly affect population size and density.

With just a few I’s left to dot and T’s left to cross, we hope to move King to his new home at Shamwari in July.

Born Free Kenya’s field team in Meru National Park has been tracking six prides of lions for two years - Elsa’s, Sanctuary, Mulika, Nairobi Girls, Bisanadi and G-Coy. G-Coy is a pride of one adult female and four-sub-adults and has been tracked since October 2016. Spotting lions in the wild is not easy and very unpredictable. Here, the team recounts a recent tracking expedition…

Born Free's British Wildlife Advocate Dominic Dyer explains why the badger culling policy is at the very centre of the debate about how our government and wider society considers issues concerning the protection of our native wildlife.

Born Free has become an official partner organisation with the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild animals (CMS).

BORN FREE KENYA’S MONITORING OFFICER STEPHEN MELUBO EXPLAINS HOW PREDATOR-PROOF BOMAS ACT AS REFUGE CENTRES FOR NEIGHBOURS’ LIVESTOCK

Born Free's President & Co-Founder Will Travers OBE urges supporters to help prevent the slaughter of hippos in Zambia as the cull returns.

The UK government introduced the Ivory Bill to the House of Commons today (23rd May). The move is the first stage of the process to bring the government’s ivory trade ban – announced last month to ban the commercial trade in elephant ivory within, to and from the UK – into UK law.

In a shocking and secretive move, Zambian authorities have overturned their 2016 decision to suspend the brutal culling of up to 2,000 hippos in the world-famous Luangwa Valley over the next five years.

Born Free has welcomed news from the Scottish government that the ban on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses in Scotland – the first ban of its kind in the UK – will come into force on 28th May 2018.