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Release Spring 2024

You'll discover:

· New investigation at notorious zoo

· Victory for animals in Nottinghamshire

· Free the gentoo penguins campaign

· Zoo Awareness Weekend was a huge success

· Animal free circus campaign continues

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International Primate Day 2024

We believe it is more than just a day to celebrate our closest animal relatives; it's a call to action for their freedom.
Freedom Champion Sign-Up Event September 2024

Join us this International Primate day and do something incredible for animals in captivity. Thank you!
Urgent Action! Tell Rotherham Council to Act Against Illegal Activity!

Your urgent help is needed to ensure that wild animal traders don’t get away with breaking the law at a reptile and amphibian market on Sunday 1st September 2024.
Anna Kiousi - Digital Marketing & Brand Communications Manager

10 facts about zoos

Here are ten facts about zoos that you need to know...
Zoos

Animals in zoos are denied a life of freedom. A cage can never be their home.
Zoos neither educate nor empower children
Aquariums

Animals in aquariums are taken from the wild and forced to live in tiny tanks.
Top 5 reasons safari parks are no better than other zoos
Top ten reasons NOT to visit Europe’s “Top Ten Zoos”

We take an alternative look at Europe’s “Top Ten” zoos suggest why you should give them, and any other business which holds animals captive for money, a wide berth
Marmosets Continue to Suffer at Manchester Pet Shop

Monkeys continue to be bought and sold as new Bill announced to outlaw the practice.
Animal circuses, animal suffering

In this article we look at transport & life on the road, training, the performances themselves, the ethics, the scientific research, escapes, how it is legal for a circus to beat an elephant with an iron bar. We ask whether this is a relic of the not so distant past, highlight some incidents and look at the legacy of deaths.
VICTORY: Wild Animals are Banned in Circuses in England!

The Wild Animals in Circuses Act has finally come into effect, after over 60 years of campaigning
Circuses

Animals including horses and dogs continue to be exploited in circuses in the UK.

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No More Zoo Secrets

Join us in demanding transparency from the zoo and aquarium industry that holds thousands of animals captive across the UK. - 8th April 2023 Read more

Take Action! Free the Sea Life Penguins

Sign our petition to demand that Sea Life/Merlin Entertainments free the gentoo penguins from their basement prison Read more

Victory! New Zoo Planning Denied by Broxtowe Council

Freedom For Animals celebrates preventing the construction of a new zoo in Nottinghamshire! Read more

Breaking news! New Undercover Investigation into Notorious Zoo now live.

We deployed an undercover investigator into South Lakes Zoo as a volunteer...watch what we uncovered now! Read more

Nature’s Masterpieces: Family Life in the Animal Kingdom

On the UN's International Day of Families, blogger Debz shines the spotlight on the animal families with whom we share the planet, and how captivity tears them apart. Read more

Take Action! Oppose the ‘Christmas Farm’ Reindeer Centre’s Planning Appeal!

Write to Wrexham Council TODAY to oppose the appeal to build a new reindeer farm. Read more

Summer of Suffering Begins in UK Zoos and Aquariums

Late night openings and alcohol-fueled events begin across the country, bringing additional misery to animals already spending their lives in captivity Read more

Freedom for Animals Launches New Report into UK Animal Circuses

Lives Left Behind demonstrates how domestic animals are still suffering in circuses, 5 years after the ban on using wild animals was approved. Read more