Big cats are clawing at the cages in UK zoos – we must make it stop.
Zoos are hiding behind their conservation and education claims, but the truth is, big cats don’t belong in zoos.
Will you help us end the exploitation?
Reducing awe-inspiring big cats to living exhibits is grotesque and wrong – please help us campaign for those who have no voice by giving a gift today.
Big Cats suffer in zoos
- Confined to enclosures 40,000 times smaller than their natural range.
- Solitary species forced to share what space they have with others, despite naturally living alone in the wild.
- Social big cats unable to form natural groups, as they would in the wild.
- Prevented from hunting, a fundamental instinct, yet often – unbearably – living in cages or enclosures close to natural prey animals.
Call on the UK Government to take action
Born Free’s latest report, ‘Clawing at the Cages: The Problem with Keeping Big Cats in Zoos‘, outlines the suffering that big cats experience in zoos, and the fact that their keeping serves no conservation purposes.
We are calling on the UK Government to stop the continued breeding of big cats – who will never be able to live a natural life in the wild, and may even be culled – and phase out the keeping of big cats in zoos for good.
You can help by lending your voice and signing our petition today. Together, we must be a voice for big cats in captivity, and help end the suffering.
Dame Virginia McKenna, Born Free Co-Founder and TrusteeMy heart aches when I think about the thousands of big cats suffering in zoos. These remarkable, powerful predators should live freely where nature intended, not caged so we can be ‘entertained’. Your gift today will help us campaign to bring an end to the exploitation of big cats in zoos. Let’s keep big cats safe in the wild, where they belong!