News & Updates

Born Free is relieved to learn that a planned lion hunt from within the pride that Cecil the lion once led has been cancelled.

Virginia McKenna OBE pays tribute to George Adamson who lost his life on this day in 1989.

The official estimate for the number of lions living in Kenya has increased 25% to 2,489, according to the Kenyan government.

Responding to the news that the use of wild animals in circuses is to be banned in Wales from 1 December 2020, Dr Chris Draper, Born Free’s Head of Animal Welfare & Captivity, said:

Born Free has joined 32 wildlife organisations and conservation experts from around the world to urge the Chinese government to shut down the production of and trade in wild animals in the country.

A new Born Free report is busting the myths and exposing the cruelty behind trophy hunting, starting with the claim that it can actually benefit wildlife conservation.

Born Free is saddened to hear that Duchess, a female African elephant kept at Paignton Zoo, UK, has died.

In March this year, a man was mauled to death by his pet lion. The man, from the Czech Republic, had kept the lion – as well as a lioness – in a cage in the back garden of his family home for three years.

Two giraffe subspecies have been listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species for the first time.

Born Free has welcomed an announcement from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) that the mountain gorilla is no longer classified as Critically Endangered.