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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dive into Born Free USA’s work for wildlife with the Spring/Summer 2026 edition of Animal Issues Digest, featuring articles about marine conservation; work to clean up plastic waste and fight wildlife ...
Freeman is 24 years old and has been at the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary for 13 years! His life before he was rescued was very sad but, once he arrived at the sanctuary, he soon settled in nicely ...
For example, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA- widely considered the highest standard accreditation agency in North America) recently published a newly updated version of their accreditation ...
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 ...
In mid-May 2025, the Columbus Zoo in Ohio found itself yet again in hot water with the authorities. Recently, the Ohio Office of the Attorney General and the Auditor of State’s Special Investigations ...
Punch, a baby Japanese macaque born at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, has recently become a viral sensation. Punch was sadly rejected by his mother soon after his birth and has suffered seemingly ...
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 ...
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