News & Updates

Attenborough and The Giant Elephant (BBC1 9pm Sunday 10th December) recalls the tortured existence of an animal who was incarcerated in zoos and travelling circuses, and whose miserable life ended following a collision with a train.

The Born Free Foundation is urging the European Commission to take bold action and shut down the ivory trade across the European Union.

Born Free is appalled to hear that a tiger has escaped from a circus in Paris and subsequently been shot dead.

Over the last month the team have travelled 3,500km and undertaken a whole host of activities including de-snaring, collar removal and consultations.

Counting elephants and other large mammals like buffalo, reticulated giraffe and Grevy’s zebra over a 65,000km2 – half the size of England - is a gargantuan task. It takes time, funds, sweat and various technical experts to achieve results.

Jalawi is a new project run by the Lilongwe Wildlife Trust to make use of wire snares collected through anti-poaching operations in Malawi.

Apparently responding to widespread criticism, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has suspended a decision taken only days ago to allow imports of elephant and other trophies from Zambia and Zimbabwe into the USA, activities banned under the previous administration, pending a review.

A young Eurasian Lynx who had previously escaped from Borth Zoo in Wales has been shot dead by marksmen contracted by the local council.

New regulations to ban the use of wild animals in circuses, due to come into force in January 2018, were signed yesterday in the Republic of Ireland.

A zoo keeper at Kaliningrad Zoo in Russia has narrowly escaped death after being attacked by one of the zoo’s tigers.