News & Updates

The latest news, blogs and features from Born Free.

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Farewell ginny

We are extremely sad to report that our adopted moon bear Ginny recently passed away following a short illness.

Poachers captured in thailand

The Born Free-supported Freeland has assisted authorities in Thailand with the arrest of a gang of tiger poachers following a three-month investigation.

Tiger ambassadors

How small teams of villagers are working together to protect and educate their community so they can live peacefully alongside wildlife.

Elephants firebombed in india

Born Free is concerned to hear that villagers in India have thrown firebombs and rocks at a mother elephant and her calf to chase them away from their community in Bishnupur, West Bengal, north east India.

Living with tigers

What would you do if you went to draw water from your village well and found a tiger trapped inside? Or if you entered the kitchen in the hotel where you worked and came face to face with a leopard?

Where they belong

Penny Banham, Born Free’s Conservation Projects Officer, examines the promise and perils of translocating wild animals.

Land of the tiger

Satpuda, in the heart of central India, is a stronghold for India’s estimated 2,000 remaining wild tigers.

Wild cats are not purrfect pets

A breeder in Scotland selling dangerous wild cats, including servals and caracals, as pets recently caught the attention of the media.

Protecting tigers

A century ago, there were an estimated 100,000 tigers across Asia. Since then, numbers have collapsed by 96% to just 4,000.