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A photo of a baby pygmy hippo standing next to a tree trunk in a zoo

Born Free urges public not to visit Moo Deng or other ‘famous’ animals in zoos

With various animals in zoos gaining popularity online recently, Born Free urges fans and the wider public not to visit them.
An adult cheetah peering at the camera through the undergrowth.

20 fun and interesting cheetah facts

Find out more about these incredible animals!
A close-up portrait of a baby monkey

New report explores fake animal rescues on social media

Born Free helps launch a shocking new report revealing the appalling rise of fake animal rescue videos.
A group of people sitting at a long table at a conference, with charity banners in the background

Born Free at the party conferences

The Labour party pledged to protect UK nature and stop wild animal suffering. So now, with your support, our charity calls on parliamentarians to do right by wildlife.
Will Travers is sat in a chair, with his mother Dame Virginia McKenna stood at his side, with a hand on his shoulder. Both are smiling at the camera.

Born Free co-founders send open letter Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Charity calls on the UK government to take decisive action for nature and wild animals.
A photo of a woman in a small cage in central London, as people walk past looking at her

The Human Animal: Celebrities caged to highlight captive big cat suffering

Patrons including Amanda Holden, Kirsty Gallacher, and Jenny Seagrove took part in a Born Free protest to shine a spotlight on the restrictive living conditions facing lions, leopards and tigers in zoos across the UK and Europe.
A photo of a lion behind the bars of a zoo enclosure with a man taking a photo of it

Big cats are clawing at the cages in UK zoos – together, let’s end this suffering

Our new appeal and ground-breaking report call for an end to the exploitation of big cats in zoos, and a ‘Roar-Free UK’.
Gordon Maloney, AVAAZ; Dr Mark Jones, Born Free; Betty Badger (Mary Barton); Peter Hambly, Badger Trust; Robert Pownall, Protect the Wild; Susanna Feder (supporter) all lined up with posters about ending the badger cull and a box containing signatures of petition signers

Born Free badger lobby goes to Parliament

Born Free joined Badger Trust and hundreds of supporters to call for an immediate end to the badger cull.
A badger looks at the camera with head tilted

Government scraps proposals for ‘targeted badger culls’

Welcome relief for badgers, but more still must be done to end the cull.
A group of elephants walking around in a muddy enclosure

Second elephant dies at Chester Zoo in a month

Chester Zoo has announced that Asian elephant Riva Hi Way has died at the age of four.