Born Free USA Blog
by Will Travers,
Chief Executive Officer
What can you say about a big-hearted bloke who has rescued dolphins, tigers, elephants and more and whose parents once helped a lion cub from a department store by caring for him in their backyard and engineering his rightful return to Africa? You can safely say that he's got great animal instincts! In 1984, Will Travers joined his parents — "Born Free" film stars Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers — to form what became The Born Free Foundation. With knowledge, passion and compassion dripping from his every word, Will's blogs are sure to make you embrace our crusade to Keep Wildlife in the Wild ®.
Putting Lives on the Line to Save Wildlife
Last week, my friend and colleague, Ofir Driori of the Last Great Ape Organization, received the Future for Nature award in The Netherlands for his outstanding efforts in protecting wild animals .
The Wisdom (or Not) of Bob Parsons
Bob Parsons – business guru or Neanderthal?
It’s a question that’s divided the country for the past few days ever since Bob’s personal poverty-reduction mission to Zimbabwe (which involved shooting an elephant) hit the headlines.
A Tragedy from Start to Finish
We are saddened to hear of the death of Knut, a young male polar bear being kept captive in Germany. His short life was a series of tragedies from start to miserable finish.
We Must Speak Out for Sharks
Sharks face many threats in today’s oceans, but the practice of “shark finning” is by far the cruelest of all.
Shark finning is a multibillion-dollar trade and a staggeringly gruesome practice. It involves cutting off a shark’s fins while it is still alive, and then tossing the poor creature back into the sea to slowly bleed to death, become prey, or drown.
Trapping Investigation Lifts Curtain on a Barbaric Act
What is it about wild animals that make some people feel that it is OK to inflict pain, suffering and death upon them? As I watched in horror the footage of our investigation inside the world of recreational and professional wildlife trapping, this question kept leaping to mind.
If We Cannot Save the Lion, No Other Species Stands a Chance
I want to share with you this piece that I wrote for the Guardian in England about our effort in the United States to protect lions:
My love of lions go back to childhood when, as a 5-year-old boy, I lived for a year in Kenya when my mother and my late father, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers — both actors and wildlife campaigners — were making the 1966 film "Born Free." It wasn't just Africa that entered my soul, it was the spirit of Elsa the lioness, the orphaned cub reared by naturalists George and Joy Adamson, whom my parents played in the film.
Imported Frogs and Turtles for Sale? A Right Is Made Wrong Again
Born Free USA was disappointed by the California Fish and Game Commission's decision to retract a ban on the issuance of import permits for live non-native turtles and frogs for human consumption. We saw the ban as an important step forward in protecting our native wildlife.
Wildlife Anthem: John Barry's 'Born Free'
For those of a certain generation (and many more besides) mention of the words “Born Free” evokes images of Africa, Elsa the lioness, Joy and George Adamson ... perhaps even my parents, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, who starred in that classic, heart-warming film.
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