News & Updates

Born Free's reaction to the news that the Zambian government has given the green light to the cull of 1,250 hippos in the Luangwa Valley.

Wild animals play a crucial role in developing and maintaining ecosystems, says Born Free's Senior Wildlife Consultant Ian Redmond OBE.

Mugaruka and Chimanuka are a pair of rare eastern lowland gorillas – also known as Grauer’s gorillas – living in the mountain rainforests of Kahuzi-Biega National Park, a vast 6,000km2 area in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Emily Neil, Born Free's Field Conservation Assistant, examines how elephants hunting hurts the whole herd.

Born Free has introduced four wild animals to its adoption portfolio – Timtom the orangutan, Gopal the tiger, Elsa’s Pride and the Jaguar Family.

Born Free’s reaction to the London Declaration adopted at the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference 2018 held in London on 11th-12th October 2018.

Born Free is at the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference 2018 in London - a two-day conference that has brought together more than 80 countries to tackle the £17bn a year illegal trade in wildlife.

Born Free is at the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference 2018 in London - a two-day conference that has brought together more than 80 countries to tackle the £17bn a year illegal trade in wildlife.

From death adders in Plymouth, to zebras in Scotland, nearly 5,000 dangerous wild animals are privately-owned in Britain, explains Born Free's Campaigns Officer Samantha Goddard.