News & Updates

The zoo industry is claiming new zoo standards announced by the government today represent a big step forward. However, we don’t think they go nearly far enough.

As the Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition’s ‘Report It!’ Week 2025 begins, Born Free highlights the ways members of the public can speak out about animal abuse and exploitation.

After years of work from Born Free with our #EndWildlifeCrime colleagues, the Council of Europe has adopted a legally binding treaty to help protect wildlife and the wider environment from crime.

Born Free welcomes the news that the previous management team at South Lakes Safari Zoo will not be opening a new zoo in Cumbria.

Historic agreement could put wild animal welfare at the heart of new approach to human health.

Born Free is extremely concerned by recent revelations regarding the health and welfare of orcas Wikie and Keijo, and 12 bottlenose dolphins, at the Marineland dolphinarium in Antibes, France.

Thanks to YOUR support, ending the cruel and ineffective badger cull should move up the parliamentary agenda.

It’s Endangered Species Day, a wonderful opportunity to tell you about some of the rare and threatened animals we help keep safe, thanks to your incredible support.

Why would a wildlife charity be interested in emotional well-being? And is unnatural, ‘zoochotic’ behaviour in captive wild animals a mental health issue?

The European Parliament has shunned scientific evidence and public opinion to vote in favour of downgrading the protection status of wolves.