Born Free needs you to Raise The Red Flag, and report the suffering of animals in captivity, so that we can take action to make it end. Share your eyewitness reports, and use our map to avoid visiting facilities where wild animals are being exploited.

Polar bear behaviour. Polar bears live for 20-25 years. Females mature at around 4 to 5 years. After a gestation of between, 195 to 265 days, it is most common for mothers to produce to twin cubs, but single and triplet litters do occur.

ZOOCHOSIS: DID YOU KNOW? In 1992, Bill Travers MBE, Co-Founder of Born Free, first coined the term ‘zoochosis’ to describe this obsessive, repetitive behaviour, and described zoo animals behaving abnormally as ‘zoochotic’.

For 40 years, Born Free has fought to free captive whales and dolphins. We won’t stop until their exploitation stops but, we need your help, explains Sarah Jefferson from our Policy team.

BILL TRAVERS MBE Co-Founder Bill Travers MBE was a wildlife campaigner, actor, screenwriter and director, well known for starring as conservationist George Adamson in the 1966 film Born Free, alongside his wife Virginia McKenna DBE.

Jan 13, 2023 · The Need for Change. Current UK regulation and policy in relation to the trade in and keeping of exotic pets is piecemeal and reactionary. The natural history, optimal husbandry and welfare needs of many species kept as exotic pets are incompletely understood by biological science, never mind those involved in trading and keeping them.

Sep 15, 2023 · As part of the Asia for Animals Coalition, Born Free has helped compile an important new report exposing the horrific exploitation of pet macaques for social media.

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 deserve. Supporting a wild animal through adoption is …

Born Free’s 2023 survey reveals that over 2,700 dangerous wild animals are licensed to be kept privately in Great Britain (and there may be many more kept without a licence). A total of 187 private addresses across 126 local authorities hold licences to …

How to recognise a hippo. Hippos are one of the largest living land mammals on the planet! There are two species of hippo: the common hippo, found across eastern, southern and western Africa, and the pygmy hippo, found in restricted areas across West Africa.