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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.
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Born Free has rescued a critically injured cheetah cub and launched an urgent appeal to raise funds for her care, as she fights for life in Ethiopia.
Abnormal behaviour in captive animals: What is zoochosis?
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’.
Pets you never knew were legal in the UK - Born Free
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.
We will never forget you - Born Free
Oct 17, 2024 · Today is poignant for Born Free, as we especially think about a little elephant who died at London Zoo, on this day, in 1983. Pole Pole was just 17 when she died, yet elephants in the wild can live for 60 years or more.
British members of monkey torture group given jail time
Nov 14, 2024 · Born Free has been deeply saddened by the development of a shocking and disturbing case of extreme animal cruelty. 37-year-old Holly Le Gresley, and Adrianna Orme who is 56, were implicated in the commissioning, viewing and distribution of sickening videos, in which infant macaques were depicted being ‘tortured to order’, following a wide investigation of around 20 people across Indonesia ...
Everything you need to know about polar bears - Born Free
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.
Adopt An Animal Today - Born Free
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 …
New report shines light on the suffering of pet macaques
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.
Everything you need to know about hippos - Born Free
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.