News & Updates

With fascinating talks and wild activities, the world’s biggest annual celebration of wildlife has taken place near Rutland Water, UK, and our team was actively involved.

After our long campaign, with other wildlife groups, Born Free welcomes news of a ban on lead ammunition – a toxic metal which pollutes the countryside and poisons wildlife.

Ten months on from the release of Born Free’s hard-hitting report, ‘Clawing at the Cages’, recent events continue to highlight why big cats simply do not belong in zoos.

10 years since Cecil was killed, we co-sponsored a parliamentary event urging the government to fulfil its longstanding promise to ban the import of hunting trophies.

Powerful images by award-winning photographer George Logan set to appear across London, as we call for a ban on hunting trophies.

After the horrifying killing of Cecil the lion in 2015, precious little has changed.

Born Free is extremely concerned to see videos and images circulated featuring the African elephants at Shanghai Wild Animal Park, China.

Our Head of Policy Dr Mark Jones chats to his long-term associate John Scanlon AO, Chair of the Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime – founded with our help on 5th June 2020.

Analysis highlights flaws in the Randomised Badger Culling Trial, which forms the basis of the policy to shoot British badgers.

Government ignores internal expert advice as it sanctions further killing of badgers.