News & Updates

The latest news, blogs and features from Born Free.

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Remembering pole pole

Why 17th October is such a poignant day for our wildlife charity and how – in memory of one special elephant – you can help end captive exploitation.

Calls to finalise plans for new deal for people and wildlife

A weighty 75,504 global citizens (including at least 9,011 voices from South Africa) are calling on Minister Barbara Creecy and her Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment to implement the New Deal for People and Wildlife.

Two turtles get a second chance at freedom

Two sea turtles held in captivity for 15 and 30 years are getting a second chance of freedom, following their release back into the wild. The story of Genoveffa and Gavino, loggerhead turtles that were kept in poor conditions at an aquarium in Sardinia.

Rwandan success story

Protecting endangered grey crowned cranes: An update on the recipient of Born Free’s McKenna-Travers Award 2020.

Born free to host event at cop26 climate change summit

‘State of the Earth’ Question Time will take place in Glasgow, on 7 November.

Home sweet home

What does the United Nations’ World Habitat Day mean to Born Free and the wild animals we strive to keep safe?

Meet ayan kamath mehra, our new youth ambassador

Singaporean 13-year-old becomes Born Free's first ever youth representative from outside of the UK.

Rhino conservation

Born Free's newest Youth Ambassador, Ayan Kamath Mehra, describes his passion for rhino conservation.

The export of 42 wild-caught live elephants from namibia may violate international law

Conservation and wildlife law experts call for immediate halt to capture and export of wild elephants from vulnerable desert-adapted population.

You can help stop the dolphin massacre

Born Free’s Policy Advisor Dominic Dyer calls for sanctions NOW to end the shameful Faroe Islands slaughter of whales and dolphins.