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Born Free Urges UK Government To Make Good On Plans To Ban Pet Primates

A new initiative involving 20 of the world’s leading conservation organisations, including Born Free, today issued an unprecedented joint Declaration to the G20 calling for urgent action to invest in nature to protect biodiversity and avoid future pandemics.

Born Free outraged as three wolves are killed to make room for a ‘new and modern area’.

Long-awaited proposals to change the EU’s lax rules on ivory trade fail to go anywhere near far enough to dis-incentivise further elephant poaching.

After being rescued from a failed zoo in Southern Spain and moved to the Born Free Rescue Section at Panthera Africa Big Cat Sanctuary, supported by IAG Cargo and British Airways Holidays, lionesses Alpha and Cora celebrate one year in their ‘forever home’.

Born Free is relieved to learn that a planned lion hunt from within the pride that Cecil the lion once led has been cancelled.

Virginia McKenna OBE pays tribute to George Adamson who lost his life on this day in 1989.

The official estimate for the number of lions living in Kenya has increased 25% to 2,489, according to the Kenyan government.

Responding to the news that the use of wild animals in circuses is to be banned in Wales from 1 December 2020, Dr Chris Draper, Born Free’s Head of Animal Welfare & Captivity, said:

Born Free has joined 32 wildlife organisations and conservation experts from around the world to urge the Chinese government to shut down the production of and trade in wild animals in the country.