With their complex social structure, our great ape cousins are captivating animals. But, there is much we don’t understand, ...

Every year, Born Free rescues, campaigns for and protects thousands of wild animals around the world. With your support we can continue to work tirelessly to ensure that all wild animals, whether ...

Looking to adopt an animal as a gift? Want to help save a life and support wildlife rescue? Adopt an animal with Born Free and you can help provide the care and protection these beautiful wild animals ...

Why are African elephants important? Both species of African elephants – Savannah and Forest – are keystone species in their different habitats and play a crucial role in maintaining their ecosystems.

From carrying prey twice their weight, to free-falling from trees, find out everything you need to know about this most versatile of big cats. Leopards usually hunt medium-sized ungulates weighing ...

A worrying new publication has exposed the scale of whale and dolphin exploitation across theme parks in China.

Wildlife trade is the buying and selling of animals and plants. It involves a multitude of countries, species and ‘commodities’ being exchanged. Entire animals and plants, living or dead, as well as ...

Adopting a cheetah helps to fund the lifetime care of Born Free’s Cheetah Family at our Ensessa Kotteh (which means ‘animal footprint’ in Amharic) sanctuary in Ethiopia. These cheetah have all been ...

Why do wildlife protectionists care about climate change? Global temperatures have been rising for over a century, speeding up in the last few years, and are now the highest on record. We release ...

Born Free, in partnership with Shamwari Private Game Reserve, operates two big cat sanctuaries in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, for lions and leopards rescued from zoos, circuses, private ownership ...

The Satpuda Landscape Tiger Partnership (SLTP) aims to reduce threats facing tigers in India, and to promote human-tiger co-existence across a vast multi-use landscape. Bombay Natural History Society; ...

Blue was found injured by the roadside in Ethiopia, her mother missing and her sister dead beside her – her young fragile life hanging in the balance. Frightened, critically injured, and in desperate ...