To honor National Teachers’ Day, we want to highlight the educators actively participating in compassionate environmental and ...

From July 30 to August 2, 2026, members of nine coastal villages in Ivory Coast took part in a major beach clean-up event, collecting 69 bags of plastic waste in total. This blog is the fourth in a ...

Your bear adoption supports Born Free USA's work to strengthen the Endangered Species Act, stop trophy hunting and lethal wildlife management, and promote peaceful coexistence between humans and bears ...

Like most other dangerous wildlife ownership laws in the United States, including those pertaining to bears, big cats, and reptiles, the legislation dictating private ownership of primates varies ...

Along the shores of Ivory Coast, an exciting story with a hopeful ending is quietly unfolding. With support from Born Free USA, Ivory Coast authorities recently launched community outreach activities ...

The zoo industry has long studied the physiological and behavioral effects visitors can have on animal welfare. While some studies (many problematically sponsored by the zoo industry itself) have ...

A group of young white mink kits look up from their tiny cage at fur farm. Minks are solitary animals and the confined spaces often leads to aggression between animals. Poland, 2017. Andrew Skowron / ...

As February rapidly approaches, so, too, does a popular “holiday” that occurs every year on February 2nd: Groundhog Day. As the folklore dictates, Groundhog Day stems from a Christian tradition called ...

Large sharks, particularly great whites, have a very poor track record of surviving in captivity, with most dying within days or even hours of capture. The first attempt to keep a great white shark in ...

A new article, Identifying inconsistencies in exotic pet regulations that perpetuate trade in risky species (Pratt et al., 2023), discusses the main consequences that result from the severely flawed ...

We challenged the substandard accreditation standards of the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) (can we get this document from Barry?) – and CAZA has since written a new manual. We ...

Wildlife conservation and animal advocacy nonprofit, Born Free USA, has today released Clawing at the Cages: Big Cats in Zoos, a major new report detailing the suffering of big cats in captivity. The ...