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The latest news, blogs and features from Born Free.

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A group of men wearing Born Free T-shirts helping to construct a boma

Life-saving ‘bomas’ arrive in Meru

Based on our successful work in Amboseli, Kenya, Born Free’s important new project in Meru is empowering local people, protecting livestock and saving lions.
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Why are dangerous wild animals as pets such a problem?

Born Free’s Captivity Research Officer Chris Lewis considers Born Free’s latest research into dangerous wild animals kept in private residences across Britain, and the problems that exotic pet ownership poses.
A young male lions sits facing the camera, while a second young male lion sits on a wooden platform behind him

Lions on the move: The long journey home

It’s the good news you’ve been waiting for – we’re about to take lions Tsar and Jamil to their ancestral homeland of South Africa! But, how do you safely move two rescued lions over 8,000 miles?
A man standing in a pool with a dolphin which is emerging upright from the water. The man is holding onto the dolphin's fins.

Born Free calls for action on animal abuse in tourism

UK Government needs to act urgently to bring landmark legislation into effect.
A herd of wild elephants walking through long grass

Born Free Co-Founder returns to Kenya for 40th anniversary

Marking Born Free's anniversary, Will Travers OBE video blogs from our charity's heartland in Kenya.
Two spider monkeys desperately clinging to the bars of a cage

New European crackdown on Environmental Crime

Born Free welcomes new Directive which will make trafficking wildlife in the EU increasingly risky for criminals.
A rhino with large horn is emerging from behind a bush

Rhino poaching on the rise again in South Africa

Latest government figures from South Africa reveal an increase in rhino killing since 2020.
A woman leaning into a pen to take a photo of a reindeer at a festive event.

Reindeer review

With your help, our joint campaign to end the cruel use of live reindeer at UK events and call for a more compassionate Christmas 2023, had a big impact.
A group of people standing in front of a banner with a tiger on it

Tiger conservation: The next 20 years?

As the Satpuda Landscape Tiger Partnership celebrates 20 years, their annual seminar considered the next two decades of tiger conservation in the forests of Central India.
A serval cat wearing a collar and lead

Exposing ‘exotic pet’ ownership in the UK

King cobras, crocodiles and cougars - we reveal the wild animals being kept next door.