News & Updates

The Cheetah Family are a coalition of rescued cheetah who live at Ensessa Kotteh, Born Free’s wildlife sanctuary in Ethiopia.

Springer is a wild orca who lives in the waters off Hanson Island in Canada’s Johnson Strait. She is monitored by the Born Free-supported Orcalab.

Chinoise is a young chimpanzee who lives at Limbe Wildlife Centre (LWC), in Cameroon.

Sara is a young chimpanzee who lives on Ngamba Island Chimp Sanctuary, in Uganda.

Kyriakos is one of the biggest bears living at the Born Free supported-Arcturos Bear Sanctuary in Greece, and his favourite activities are eating and sleeping!

Born Free is working closely with Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to safeguard the future of a pride of lions called ‘Elsa’s Pride’.

Mugaruka and Chimanuka are a pair of rare eastern lowland gorillas – also known as Grauer’s gorillas – living in the mountain rainforests of Kahuzi-Biega National Park, a vast 6,000km2 area in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Born Free has introduced four wild animals to its adoption portfolio – Timtom the orangutan, Gopal the tiger, Elsa’s Pride and the Jaguar Family.

Our Elephants in Crisis campaign has focused on the plight of wild elephants in Africa. But did you know a captive elephant called Pole Pole is the driving force behind Born Free?

The UK is in the process of introducing a domestic ivory ban. But what action have other countries taken? Born Free’s Head of Policy Dr Mark Jones finds out