News & Updates

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.

If you visited Paris’ beautiful Champs-Elysées, you’d expect to see the Arc de Triomphe, theatres, cafes and luxury shops. What you wouldn’t expect to see is a lion. But that’s exactly what police officers found in the back of a green Lamborghini on this world-famous thoroughfare in November 2018.

Most children have toy animals in their bedroom. But how would you feel about a real lion cub sitting on your child’s bed? Amazingly, this is exactly how Horus, a two-month-old cub, was discovered in an apartment in the suburbs of Paris, France, in October 2018.

In 2001, the 172-year history of keeping elephants at London Zoo came to an end. What happened to London’s last elephants?

Today we fondly remember our Co-Founder Bill Travers MBE, who passed away on 29th March 1994. In this very special blog, our Co-Founder Virginia McKenna OBE reflects on his life.

Born Free has launched a campaign calling for a phase out of elephants from UK zoos, in light of continued concerns about elephant welfare and shortened lifespan.

Glen Vena, Animal Care Manager at our Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa gives his latest update.

In November 2018, a six-year-old tigress, known as Avni, or T-1, was shot dead in Maharashtra, central India. Avni and her two cubs had reportedly killed 13 people since 2016 and were hunted for two years after officials ordered her death.

Wild tigers face many threats to their survival across the Satpuda landscape of central India, where Born Free’s Living with Tigers programme operates. A serious threat is electrocution.

In 1794, William Blake wrote the famous lines, Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?