News & Updates

As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking forward to a new year that is already proving to be bigger and better than 2018. So what can you expect from Born Free in 2019?

As the year draws to a close, we look back at some of our biggest achievements. Here’s our 18 highlights of 2018…

Glen Vena, Animal Care Manager at our big cat rescue centre in South Africa gives his latest update.

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.