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Born Free has become an official partner organisation with the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild animals (CMS).

BORN FREE KENYA’S MONITORING OFFICER STEPHEN MELUBO EXPLAINS HOW PREDATOR-PROOF BOMAS ACT AS REFUGE CENTRES FOR NEIGHBOURS’ LIVESTOCK

Born Free's President & Co-Founder Will Travers OBE urges supporters to help prevent the slaughter of hippos in Zambia as the cull returns.

The UK government introduced the Ivory Bill to the House of Commons today (23rd May). The move is the first stage of the process to bring the government’s ivory trade ban – announced last month to ban the commercial trade in elephant ivory within, to and from the UK – into UK law.

In a shocking and secretive move, Zambian authorities have overturned their 2016 decision to suspend the brutal culling of up to 2,000 hippos in the world-famous Luangwa Valley over the next five years.

Born Free has welcomed news from the Scottish government that the ban on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses in Scotland – the first ban of its kind in the UK – will come into force on 28th May 2018.

Evidence is emerging of a new threat for Asian elephants - a gruesome trade dealing in beads and medicinal powder... made from their skin, as Born Free's Associate Director for Asia & Oceania Gabriel Fava explains.

Thembela Schoeman, Education Assistant for Born Free South Africa, describes how Born Free helped school children celebrate International Leopard Day.

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Bamfords, the leading Auction House and Valuers, based in Derbyshire, has announced a new initiative to support the international wildlife charity Born Free.