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

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 ...

Joining Born Free USA’s Wildlife Alert Team is an easy way to learn how to help save animals. Through them we offer you many important ways to work with us at the global, national, state, and local ...

Red-eared sliders are one of the most popular turtles in the pet trade. Between the 1930s and 1970s, they were captured, usually as babies, and shipped throughout the United States to be kept as pets.

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 ...

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 ...

Meat contaminated with bird flu is thought to be one way for the virus to pass to captive wild cats like cougars. Since our Risky Business: The Dangers of Zoonotic Disease in the Fur Trade report was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) at the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary with (L to R): Sanctuary Veterinarian, Dr. Katie Jennings; Born Free USA CEO, Angela Grimes; Born Free USA Director of Animal Welfare ...

Also known as scaly anteaters, there are eight different species of pangolin found across Africa and Asia. Apart from their face and belly, pangolins are the only mammal in the world to be covered in ...

Baby baboons Mari, Peach, Ophelia, and Little Foot. Photo: Born Free USA. When the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary answers a call with a request to take in a monkey, our goal is always to find a ...