News & Updates

Born Free, is deeply concerned to learn that the Tanzania government is to hold an auction of 12,500 hippo teeth weighing 3.5 tonnes on Monday 29th January 2018, raising fears for the future of the species across key areas of its range.

Born Free warmly congratulates Thailand’s law enforcement agencies as well as Freeland Foundation for its critical role in securing the arrest of one of Asia’s most sought after but, until now, untouchable wildlife criminals.

Wildlife Photographers United and Born Free are delighted to announce the launch of a new Kickstarter campaign to fund Remembering Great Apes, a breath-taking new coffee table book showcasing extraordinary images of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and bonobos. The book will feature work by more than 50 of the world’s top wildlife photographers, including Art Wolfe, Frans Lanting and Martyn Colbeck.

This year began on a high note for our lion monitoring activity in Meru Park. After two days of intensive lion tracking, we noted several activities along the major roads.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has published a draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill, on which comments are invited through a public consultation which ends on 31st January 2018.

Wildlife crime – the need for a global solution: Born Free Foundation Calls for Immediate – and Lasting - Action to Save Imperilled Species

Wild animals have special ways of survival. They behave in a manner that surprises us. Intriguingly, when animals are injured or sick, they tend to find ways to seek help - they get closer to the camps, in open areas and in most cases, sleep along the roads.

South Africa’s canned hunting industry is coming under increasing pressure, even among hunting advocates.

Across Africa, tens of thousands of elephants are brutally killed for their ivory tusks every year. Their populations are continuing to decline: nearly half of the total elephant population was lost between 1979 and 1989, plummeting from an estimated 1.3 million to just 600,000 individuals. Today, the Great Elephant Census reports only 350,000 elephants surviving, a decrease of 30% in just seven years. The IUCN lists them as Vulnerable.

Devon and Cornwall Police have confirmed that a clouded leopard has escaped from a private collection, reporting that the animal escaped on Boxing Day before being recaptured following reports that sheep had been killed in the area.