News & Updates

For International Women's Day, Editor Celia Nicholls salutes the superwomen devoted to wild animal care and conservation, both on the frontline and behind the scenes.

Our team rescues and rehomes vulnerable animals, often from lives of misery in tiny cages. But it’s a complicated process, as Rescue & Care Officer Flo Blackbourn explains.

The latest news on some of the adopted animals YOU help us look after.

One year after our Lions of Lockdown arrived at their new home in South Africa, we’ve been checking in with their carers to see how they are doing now.

A long read by Rescue & Care Officer Flo Blackbourn, considers five reasons why leopards need your help today.

We are saddened to announce the death of cheetah, Dember, at our Ensessa Kotteh sanctuary in Ethiopia in mid-January.

Born Free’s supports campaign to end the sale of illegal poison products in the UK aimed at killing protected species.

We are so sad to announce that one of our beloved cheetahs has died after a short illness.

Rescue & Care Officer Flo Blackbourn reports on Born Free’s support of wildlife rescue centres across the UK.

Award-winning actress, writer, singer, poet, humanitarian, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and one of wildlife’s greatest champions, Virginia McKenna OBE, has been made a Dame in recognition of her work for Wild Animal Welfare and Compassionate Conservation in the New Year Honours List 2023.