News & Updates

A baby dolphin has died after tourists in southern Spain took the animal from the shallows and passed it around for photos. It has been reported that a the lifeguard who tried to intervene “saw hundreds of people rushing towards the animal”, and sadly, children were seen covering the baby dolphin's blowhole in their rush to handle it.

A 42 year old man has reportedly been seriously injured by a bear after he jumped over a stand-off barrier near animal cages at a roadside café in the Irkutsk region of Russia.

In the recent past, the Amboseli eco-system has witnessed an increase in human population leading to activities such as clearing bush and trees for farming or settlement, and charcoal burning. Habitat loss, insufficient rainfall and loss of indigenous tree species are some of the negative impacts of such activities.

On the 14th August the new provincial Government of British Columbia announced a ban on the trophy hunting of grizzly bear, along with all hunting within the Great Bear Rainforest, from 30th November 2017.

Ethiopian wolves are highly specialized to life on the meadows of the roof of Africa. Africa’s rarest, and most threatened carnivore, most populations are tiny. But there are signs wolves in Bale Mountains are bouncing back from the latest rabies epidemic.

It has been reported that a zookeeper was killed on Friday 4th August after a bear dug its way under a fence at Orsa Rovdjurspark in northern Sweden.

In recent years, there has been an increase in pet owners wanting more exotic and unusual pets, as opposed to the domesticated cat or dog; and now tens of thousands of exotic pets are thought to be kept privately in the UK alone. Unlike truly domesticated species, these are wild animals, with all the same needs and instincts as their counterparts in the wild. Not only is a domestic environment completely unsuitable for such animals, but they may be sold irresponsibly or advertised incorrectly, leading to ill-informed owners being left unsure as to how to provide for their complex needs.

A video appearing to show a keeper mistreating giant pandas at the Chengdu Research and Breeding Base has caused public outrage in China.

Born Free's Associate Director Conservation Africa, Liz Greengrass, co-author of first study of its kind, which shows true scale of problem facing world’s most illegally traded mammal. The hunting of pangolins, the world’s most illegally traded mammal, has increased by 150 percent in Central African forests from 1970s to 2014, according to a new study led by the University of Sussex.

Often we talk about projects or key issues in terms of their impact on conservation, animal welfare or trade and policy but this recent report from our partners in Cameroon shows how intertwined all these topics are.