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

This blog is the second in a series of four blog articles that will highlight marine conservation work in Ivory Coast. Follow along for the rest of the series! A conservation program is only as strong ...

This blog is the first in a series of four blog articles that will highlight marine conservation work in Ivory Coast. Follow along for the rest of the series! Along a quiet stretch of Ivory Coast’s ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently confirmed several cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) in captive minks at a fur farm in Utah. This marks the first time H5N1 ...

Recently, a news story broke detailing the events of an overnight fire that broke out at Bedford County Middle School in Virginia. Upon entering the school, firefighters responding to the emergency ...

The first CITES Animals Committee meeting I attended was its 21st meeting, held in the very same large and poorly lit Geneva conference room in 2005. When we think of Switzerland, we think of snowy ...

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 ...

An officer holds the pangolin in his hands, ready to release him back into the wild as rain pours down on the crowd. Born Free USA promotes Compassionate Conservation to enhance the survival of ...

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 ...

Happy and Patty – the other solitary housed elephant at the Bronx Zoo – have long been the subject of concern from animal welfare advocates. Happy was captured from the wild around 1971 and, since ...

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 ...

As humans living in an increasingly urbanized society, it can be difficult to coexist with wildlife when we ascribe ownership to almost everything; we perceive common outdoor spaces as “my yard,” “my ...