To honor National Reptile Day, we want to highlight a new five-part docuseries, Monsters of God, which recently aired in ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Despite other cities exhibiting wild animals earlier at more informal menageries (small collections of “exotic” animals), like the Central Park Zoo in 1864, the Philadelphia Zoo is often cited as the ...

This National Wildlife Week, we want to share some good news to help uplift our wildlife warriors in a world that can seem constantly oversaturated with stories resulting in doom and gloom. For a ...

I’ve been very lucky to travel to some incredible places for work over the last 25 years. And people always ask me, “What was Sierra Leone like?” or “What did you do in Senegal?” or “What did you ...