Category: Rescue Animals

This was the terrifying moment a brave young mother battled to keep her beloved horse calm as sea water closed in on the animal after he became trapped in mud ‘like quicksand’. Exhausted and mud-splattered, Nicole Graham clung to her trapped horse Astro for three hours keeping his head high in a race against the…

‘Soul-crushing’ footage has emerged of a starving wild polar bear scouring a desolate landscape for food. In heartbreaking scenes, which brought the cameraman who captured them to tears, the emaciated creature can be seen scavenging for sustenance, stumbling over terrain devoid of ice. In heartbreaking scenes, which brought the cameraman who captured them to tears,…

Thirty-five elephants who were saved from the Ringling Bros Circus are finally being shipped to a lush new habitat at Florida’s White Oak Conservation Center form. The first 12 of the herd were sent to the conservation centre, and for Michelle Gadd, a dedicated conservationist, this is a dream come true. She reflects on this:…

During the winter food can become scarce for lots of wildlife. For birds of prey, many will revert to eating roadkill along roads and highways during this time. In Oregon this week, a male bald eagle was reportedly feeding on such a meal near highway I-84 when he was hit by a car. A rescue…

This is the adorable moment a baby elephant and its family walk through an area cleared by lumberjacks. Phantom the elephant was filmed struggling to cross a fallen tree trunk in Chowkham village, in north east India, on Monday afternoon The elephant family are regulars in the village and a local tends to them and uses…

A brave rescuer put his hands in harm’s way to free a distressed hawk that had become trapped in fishing lines. The man’s footage shows him walking along a riverbank and spotting the bird in the shallows, with its tattered wings submerged in the water. This is the moment a brave man rescued an ensnared…

  We have seen a lot of videos showing professional animal handlers and regular people working together to save and free animals that have either fallen into pits or been trapped. Here, a lone guy is attempting to free a wolf whose front leg has become entangled in a trap. An unusual rescue video has…

The goat had been intended as the tiger’s lunch, but now the pair have become some of the animal kingdom’s most unlikely friends. Staff at a Russian safari park are ‘stunned’ at the goat’s bravery and the Siberian tiger’s readiness to make friends with his meal. Extraordinary images show Amur, the obedient big cat, reduced…

A tiny loggerhead turtle was found on Northland’s Ninety Mile Beach, covered in barnacles. After being nursed back to health at Auckland Zoo, it has been transferred to Kelly Tarlton’s. A young loggerhead sea turtle was found very far from home when it washed up on Northland’s Ninety Mile Beach last week. A member of…