News & Updates

Born Free’s rescue and education centre at Shamwari Private Game Reserve, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, is named in memory of an inspirational young lady who was tragically killed in Kenya 30 years ago. Today would have been her 58th birthday. This is the story of Julie Ward…

For me, such a person was Daphne Sheldrick. Indeed, her death on 12th April deeply touched millions who had never met her but felt she was a true friend.

Born Free is pleased to learn that an appeal against the refusal of a licence to operate a travelling circus with wild animals to Thomas Chipperfield – the self-proclaimed “UK’s last lion tamer” – has been dismissed in court.

Born Free Kenya’s Meru field team were recently on hand during a rhino ear notching exercise conducted by Kenya Wildlife Service in Meru National Park. Some 17 rhinos - two blacks and 15 white - were successfully notched in Meru’s rhino sanctuary.

Born Free is deeply distressed to hear of the recent death of much-loved artist and long-term Born Free Patron, Pollyanna Pickering.

The Amboseli Ecosystem has experienced prolonged drought for the past three years.

By Born Free South Africa Education Officer Sidney Clay

Death of Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, sends a stark message Sudan, the last remaining male Northern white rhino, who had been suffering from age-related ailments, has been put down at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya, leaving two female Northern whites at the sanctuary as the only living reminders of a rhino subspecies that was once numerous and widespread across East and Central Africa.

Born Free today welcomes the long-awaited announcement of a ban on the commercial trade in elephant ivory within, to and from the UK. However, Born Free is seeking greater clarity about the appointment of a special regulator who will manage the accreditation of exempt items*.