The return of the zambia hippo cull?
Born Free's President & Co-Founder Will Travers OBE urges supporters to help prevent the slaughter of hippos in Zambia as the cull returns.
News & Updates
The latest news, blogs and features from Born Free.
News – Born Free welcomes ivory bill
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.
News – lives of 2,000 wild hippo under threat
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.
News – wild animal circus ban to come into force in scotland by end of may
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.
Skinning for profit
Evidence is emerging of a new threat for Asian elephants - a gruesome trade dealing in beads and medicinal powder... made from their skin, as Born Free's Associate Director for Asia & Oceania Gabriel Fava explains.
Teaching the next generation about leopards
Thembela Schoeman, Education Assistant for Born Free South Africa, describes how Born Free helped school children celebrate International Leopard Day.
Big cat diaries – february 2018
The latest big cat updates from Shamwari
Bamfords new initiative for Born Free
Bamfords, the leading Auction House and Valuers, based in Derbyshire, has announced a new initiative to support the international wildlife charity Born Free.
News – guinea-bissau chimp rescue update
Bo and Bella have arrived! Born Free helps relocate two rescued chimps to sanctuary
Green is back!
Born Free Kenya's Meru field team welcome the return of the rain to Meru National Park.