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As Britain is in a period where opportunities for people to leave the house are restricted, and as some zoos plead poverty and threaten to kill their animals, we need to consider carefully what this crisis means for animals in captivity – now and into the future – says Dr Chris Draper, Born Free’s Head of Animal Welfare & Captivity

In the last four years, Born Free has given lifetime homes to six lions with likely connections to circuses in France.

Born Free is delighted to welcome Karen Botha as its new Managing Director.

Ways to learn about and help wildlife from home

Born Free is delighted to have been recognised by the United Nations Carbon Neutral Now initiative by being accredited with the Carbon Neutral Gold Standard.

The coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the world is causing physical, social and economic disruption on an unprecedented scale.

Globally, thousands of wild animals are used in circuses and forced to perform demeaning and unnatural tricks to entertain the public. Born Free considers the use of wild animals in circuses to be unethical and incompatible with the needs of wild animals, and we have campaigned for many years for this practice to be banned across the world.

New plea to the authorities as Born Free launches Goodbye to the circus campaign.

Born Free has rescued two cheetah cubs from the illegal wildlife trade and given them a lifetime home at Ensessa Kotteh, its wildlife sanctuary in Ethiopia.

Culls continue in England despite lack of credible evidence that they are effective.