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A Powerpoint slide featuring a bird of prey in flight with the caption 'Wildlife Crime & Trade'

Wildlife Crime & Trade

This lesson highlights the impacts that wildlife crime and trade has on our environment, communities, economy and the individual animals themselves.
Photograph of zebras performing in a circus ring, used for French lesson “Le cirque” about wild animals in circuses. Pink and purple lighting, green backdrop, red title banner, and Bored Free logo frame scene with several striped zebras moving across arena.

Les animaux sauvages devraient-ils participer à des numéros de cirque?

A short unit of work, designed for Key Stage 4 aged students studying French.
Photographic educational title card featuring a pangolin perched on a tree branch against a blurred green background. Orange labels read “All About Pangolins” and “Assembly,” alongside Born Free logo, introducing a wildlife-focused presentation.

All About Pangolins Assembly

With ready-to-use PowerPoints and easy to follow teaching notes, this assembly has been designed to make it easy to introduce age-ranges across primary schools to this charismatic species.
A brightly coloured painting with the text 'Last Chance to Paint: Land of the Tiger'

Last Chance to Paint. Chapter 4: Land of the Tiger (India)

This scheme of work, created in partnership with Last Chance to Paint (founded by artist John Dyer), offers opportunities to run a class topic based on India.
Photograph showing two chimpanzees interacting in a natural, green forest setting, used as a promotional visual for a Teacher & Educator CPD program focused on developing empathy through animal welfare. Text overlays include

Continuous Professional Development – Building Empathy for Animals 2025

Partnering with Empathy Week 2025, our Education Team ran an online teacher Continuous Professional Development (CPD) session, to empower educators around the world and help them to integrate empathy into the wider curriculum and teaching.
Photograph promoting Teacher & Educator CPD for Empathy Week, featuring a person holding a black and white lemur while others take photos. Text questions if zoo visits serve best interests of students and animals, highlighting ethical considerations in education.

Continuous Professional Development – Building Empathy for Animals 2026

In partnership with Empathy Week 2026, Born Free hosted a webinar based Continuous Professional Development (CPD) session, to help educators bring this subject to life and carefully consider engaging with activities involving animals.
A slide showing a toucan with text overlaid: GCSE Biology. B7 Module. AQA Double Award PART 2

GCSE Biology, B7 module (AQA Double Award) – Part 2

Lessons 5-8, covering all the key topics in Ecology through multiple lesson plans, this pack is designed to save teachers and educators valuable time, whilst getting students enthused about wildlife and the environment.
A slide showing a toucan with text overlaid: GCSE Biology. B7 Module. AQA Double Award PART 1

GCSE Biology, B7 module (AQA Double Award) – Part 1

Lessons 1-4, covering all the key topics in Ecology through multiple lesson plans, this pack is designed to save teachers and educators valuable time, whilst getting students enthused about wildlife and the environment.
A slide featuring an image of a sea bird standing next to a pile of plastic waste. Text overlaid: The Great Debate: Plastics: Whose responsibility?

Born Free’s Great Debate. Plastic: Whose responsibility? KS2

With links to Key Stage 2 Science, English, Geography, Citizenship and SMSC, this multi-lesson pack will help learners think more critically about effect that humanity’s habits are having on the planet.
A graphic showing a photo of a baby elephant with text overlaid: All About Elephants - SEN Resources Module 1: Drama & Poetry

Autism & Nature – All About Elephants – Drama & Poetry

Through drama, performance and poetry, learners with autism or special educational needs and disabilities will discover elephant habitats, behaviours and the challenges people face living alongside them.