News & Updates

New names for Kuuma and Girl!

We have recently launched a report, Trophy Hunting: Busting the myths and exposing the cruelty, to examine the scale, scope and impact of trophy hunting and debunk the claims made by trophy hunters. Taken from that report, here’s 10 facts you need to know about trophy hunting

Marc Gumbrill, Born Free’s Head of Business Sustainability explains how, and why, we can reuse plastic bags.

Born Free’s Hitesh Patel explains how partnerships can build a better world and more sustainable future.

We’re preparing to move the Lions of Lyon to their new home in South Africa. How will they make the near-8,000 mile journey?

In a guest blog, Laura Craddock, Fundraising and Communications Manager at the Born Free-supported Limbe Wildlife Centre, reveals how the centre is rescuing and rehabilitating endangered African grey parrots

Born Free’s Head of Policy Dr Mark Jones explains why Born Free is supporting a Bill to protect hares during their breeding season.

Ciam the lion made international headlines in November 2015 when he was confiscated from a cage in a garden in southern France.

Also known as an ankus or goad, a bullhook it is a stout pole with a metal hook and a metal tip on the end. It is used in training and controlling elephants by a handler applying pressure to sensitive points on an elephant’s body.

Do you remember Simon, the young, orphaned chimpanzee in Guinea-Bissau who was taken from the wild and sold as a pet? We raised funds last December to move Simon from his barren cage to a lifetime home at Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenya.