News & Updates

Your generous donations to our recent Apes on the Edge appeal have already had a remarkable impact.

Born Free’s Head of Policy, Dr Mark Jones chats to Nomusa Dube, founder of the Zimbabwe Elephant Foundation, dedicated to helping communities co-exist with wildlife.

The world’s wildlife trade regulator has recommended a raft of measures aimed at reducing the risk of future zoonotic diseases emerging from trade in protected species.

Born Free reports on a continuing crisis for wild animals and local people in Kenya, as a devastating drought, the worst in decades, continues to grip eastern Africa.

Our Head of Policy, Dr Mark Jones, urges the UK government to make good on their promise to ban trophy hunting imports and set a precedent for other countries to follow.

Since two new proposals were made public, Born Free, alongside partner organisations, has been asking that governments reject both outright.

Born Free is in Panama, working with colleagues from the global Species Survival Network of almost 100 organisations dedicated to protecting animals and plants not only from illegal trade but the often the devastating impacts of legal international wildlife trade.

Although the United Nations Climate Change CoP27 summit agreed a historic Loss and Damage Fund, there was not enough action to combat the climate emergency.

Global wildlife trade regulator votes for a moratorium on exports of live wild-caught African elephants.

Born Free are delighted to share the news that Free Billy, narrated by Born Free’s very own matriarch, Virginia McKenna OBE, has received Best Human and Nature Documentary at the 2022 Wildlife Conservation Film Festival, in New York.