News & Updates

For 40 years, Born Free has fought to free captive whales and dolphins. We won’t stop until their exploitation stops but, we need your help, explains Sarah Jefferson from our Policy team.

A ‘holiday of a lifetime’ could mean a lifetime of horror for captive whales and dolphins forced to perform at some of the world’s most popular holiday hotspots.

A worrying new publication has exposed the scale of whale and dolphin exploitation across theme parks in China.

We are now calling for orcas and other animals to be relocated to sanctuaries.

Born Free joins global animal welfare charities to rally outside travel giant TUI Group’s HQ in Berlin, Germany, to highlight the suffering dolphins face in captivity and call for change.

Born Free applauds recent news that two UK tour operator giants have announced that they will no longer sell tickets to attractions with captive cetaceans (dolphins, whales and porpoises).

Born Free will be at the European Parliament in Brussels with our Dolphinaria-Free Europe coalition colleagues, to discuss why captivity is not a suitable environment for cetaceans.

Born Free leads a delegation to meet with Labour Shadow Ministers for Europe and the Environment, calling for trade sanctions against the Faroe Islands to end whale and dolphin hunts.

On World Ocean Day, let’s speak up to save the blue planet, encourages our Editor, Celia Nicholls. To mitigate climate change, we need to protect orca, to help protect the entire planet!

Our petition to suspend trade agreement with The Faroe Islands until all whale and dolphin hunts end will be debated in Parliament on 11th July - please encourage your MP to speak up and stop the slaughter.