News & Updates

It’s Olympics finals day today… but not the Olympics you think.

The Leopard Family lives at Born Free’s big cat sanctuary at Shamwari Private Game Reserve, South Africa.

Our handsome young lion King will celebrate his very first Christmas at our big cat rescue centre in South Africa this month.

Glen Vena, Animal Care Manager at our big cat rescue centre in South Africa gives his latest update.

The Born Free-supported Giraffe Conservation Foundation has successfully re-introduced eight West African giraffe to the Gadabedji Biosphere Reserve in Niger, after an absence of almost 50 years.

Born Free’s carnivore and community co-existence programme, Pride of Amboseli, has been working in the Amboseli ecosystem since 2010 to reduce human-lion conflict and promote co-existence between humans and carnivores. The key way that we address human-lion conflict is by building predator-proof bomas.

In a guest blog, Birungi James Silver, Education Officer for the Born Free-supported Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust, in Uganda, explains how a sanitation competition is helping wildlife conservation.

The Cheetah Family are a coalition of rescued cheetah who live at Ensessa Kotteh, Born Free’s wildlife sanctuary in Ethiopia.

Born Free is appalled to hear that a snow leopard named Margaash has been shot dead after escaping from Dudley Zoo, UK.

Born Free supports the Bulindi Chimpanzee & Community Project (BCCP), a grassroots, non-profit organisation established in 2014 to conserve a major population of 300 wild chimpanzees clinging to survival in fast-disappearing, unprotected habitat in Uganda’s Hoima district.