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Since 1995 Born Free’s Big Cat project has been dedicated to helping lions, tigers and leopards in need.

Protecting lions in the wild in Africa

Our Big Cat project is dedicated to helping lions, tigers and leopards in need.  Born Free rescues lions, leopards and tigers from tiny cages; gives individual big cats lifetime care at sanctuaries in South Africa and India; protects wild lions in Africa and India; campaigns to end hunting lions and leopards for ‘sport’; funds a major wild tiger conservation initiative in India; and develops humane solutions when people and big cats come in conflict

Born Free's Big Cat Project

• Investigates and alleviates the suffering of captive big cats
• Rescues big cats from appalling captive conditions
• Supports big cat conservation in the wild
• Develops humane solutions when people and big cats come in conflict

Born Free achievements:

• The high-profile rescue of 34 lions, tigers and leopards from appalling captive conditions and their lifetime care in suitable sanctuaries (1995–2006). Including the Three Lions rescued from a French circus (November 2006).
• Exposing Europe’s unregulated exotic pet trade in tigers and other species (1998)
• The launch of our Animal Rescue and Education Centre in memory of Julie Ward, at Shamwari wildlife reserve, South Africa (1998)
• The creation of a Tiger Sanctuary at Bannerghatta Wildlife Sanctuary, India (2002)
• Launching a major tiger conservation initiative in India (2003)
• Helping develop a conservation project for India’s rare Asiatic lion (2004)
• Launch of the Lion Fund to secure a future for Africa’s lions (2005)
• Creation of a second Animal Rescue and Education Centre at Shamwari, South Africa, created tread more