News & Updates

The latest updates from the Julie Ward and Jean Byrd centres at Shamwari

Wildlife Photographers United and Born Free are delighted to announce the launch of a new Kickstarter campaign to fund Remembering Great Apes, a breath-taking new coffee table book showcasing extraordinary images of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and bonobos. The book will feature work by more than 50 of the world’s top wildlife photographers, including Art Wolfe, Frans Lanting and Martyn Colbeck.

Wildlife crime – the need for a global solution: Born Free Foundation Calls for Immediate – and Lasting - Action to Save Imperilled Species

Wild animals have special ways of survival. They behave in a manner that surprises us. Intriguingly, when animals are injured or sick, they tend to find ways to seek help - they get closer to the camps, in open areas and in most cases, sleep along the roads.

The latest updates on our big cats at the Jean Byrd centre, at Shamwari Sanctuary in South Africa.

For the first two weeks of this month, it has been a hive of activities in Amboseli. Despite the much-awaited rainfall we received last month that affected our work at some points and inaccessibility in some areas due to bad weather, we pushed through to accomplish our mission before the year end.

The latest Big Cat updates from Shamwari

A citizen science group called Two Million Tusks (TMT) has published a review of ivory sales through British auction houses entitled “Ivory: The Grey Areas”.

As Brexit negotiations continue, it’s important to remember one particular constituency that never got to vote in the referendum, but for whom the implications could be profound. We’re talking of course about animals.

Earlier this month our team at Ensessa Kotteh welcomed a new addition. This beautiful male Menelik’s bushbuck was confiscated by the Oromia Forestry and Wildlife Enterprises (OFWE) near the small town of Asela (nearly 190km from our sanctuary).