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Born Free urges MPs to end UK badger cull

Born Free staff and supporters joined colleagues and friends from animal welfare groups to lobby MPs in Westminster to bring an immediate end to badger culling.

It’s time to stop selfish selfies

Born Free’s Selfish Selfies campaign is raising awareness of the use of captive wild animals as props for souvenir photos and encouraging people to pledge not to support this exploitative industry. It’s a global issue affecting thousands of animals, explains Born Free’s Captivity Campaigns Information Coordinator Sarah Jefferson.

The impacts of trophy hunting on conservation and animal welfare

New article by Born Free’s Head of Policy, Dr Mark Jones highlights the damage caused to individual animals, their social groups and the wider ecology.

Organisations call for Hunting Act to be strengthened

Born Free to join colleagues at the Time for Change Coalition’s launch event in London.

Born Free at EU Parliament calling for end to cetacean captivity

Born Free will be at the European Parliament in Brussels with our Dolphinaria-Free Europe coalition colleagues, to discuss why captivity is not a suitable environment for cetaceans.

Brexit; a bad deal for animals

New Born Free-backed report highlights failings to protect and improve animal welfare in the UK.

Born Free leads delegation to call for Faroe Islands trade sanctions

Born Free leads a delegation to meet with Labour Shadow Ministers for Europe and the Environment, calling for trade sanctions against the Faroe Islands to end whale and dolphin hunts.

UK Government blocks attempts to reinstate Kept Animals Bill

Today in Parliament, MPs voted on the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill.

Speak up to save badgers

Care about badgers? Join us to lobby your MP to end the badger cull.

Own goal by MK Dons FC ownership as UK’s largest reptile show heads to Milton Keynes

Born Free urges members of the public to take action against cruel and outdated Reptile Show by writing to host venue.