News & Updates

The latest news, blogs and features from Born Free.

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Success: marston’s cancels pub event involving wild animals

We welcome news that leading independent brewery and pub retailer has taken this positive step following a joint letter from Born Free and OneKind, and reiterate calls to ban the use of wild animals for exhibition or performance.

Another young cheetah rescued in ethiopia

Born Free Ethiopia undertake a six-day round trip to bring Dehar to safety.

The lions of lockdown are home!

From the circus to South Africa: Four lions’ incredible journey to their ancestral homeland.

Born free supports calls for a ban on sale and use of glue traps in the uk

Born Free believes that glue traps cause extreme and potentially prolonged animal suffering to both target and non-target species.

Thank you for helping save africa’s giants!

We hope you feel proud of all we’ve achieved together to protect rare giraffes and elephants.

Could you win our primate award?

Born Free’s annual Primate Society of Great Britain grant is now open for nominations and we want to hear from you!

Spirit of elsa

Today is a very special day for our charity as we remember Elsa the lioness.

Animal sentience bill – great news!

UK law to recognise animals as sentient beings is one step closer, thanks to all of you who lobbied their MP to support the Bill’s second reading.

John Rendall remembered

Will Travers OBE and Virginia McKenna OBE pay tribute to passionate wildlife campaigner John Rendall, made famous by the incredible story of Christian the Lion.

Animal sentience bill – we need your help

Will you help make 2022 the year in which the UK Government recognises the sentience of animals in law?