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.

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.

In 1964, actress Virginia McKenna DBE and her husband, actor Bill Travers MBE, went to Kenya to make and star in what would become a wildlife classic, Born Free.The film was based on Joy Adamson’s best-selling book of the same name – the extraordinary tale of how she and her husband George raised Elsa, an orphaned lion cub, before releasing her …

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.

The long journey home… Transporting two lions over 8,000 miles (13,000km) across Europe and down through Africa is a complex operation. Many hundreds of hours of planning, evaluation and care has been undertaken by Born Free’s experts and specialists, together with our valued partners Natuurhulpcentrum, Shamwari Private Game Reserve, Cargolux, and British Airways Holidays, to ensure the ...

JOY ADAMSON. Pioneering naturalist, author and artist, Joy Adamson wrote bestselling book Born Free in 1960, based on her husband George Adamson’s diaries which told the story of her efforts to raise and rehabilitate orphaned lion cub, Elsa, and return her to the wild.

Jun 7, 2024 · June is a special and emotional month for me and all at Born Free, as we celebrate the 93 rd birthday of Dame Virginia McKenna – or as I prefer to call her, my Mum.. It was 40 years ago this year, that, together with my late father, Bill, we sat around the kitchen table, wondering how to respond to the senseless destruction of Pole …

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.

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 …

You can choose either a physical adoption pack, which you will receive in the post and comes with an optional soft toy. Alternatively, you can opt for a digital adoption pack where 33% more of your adoption fee can go towards our vital work (compared to a physical adoption), and this would be received via email.