Category: Rescue Animals
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Refusing to leave, the wild baby elephant stood guard, eyes full of worry, silently promising to stay until his friend was safe.
Earlier this week, rangers patrolling the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya spotted five elephants who’d been wounded by arrows. When the rangers gathered information from nearby communities, they learned what had happened — local farmers had shot the elephants after the herd ate some of their crops. Before the team could help the injured…
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The elephant calves gently touched their sick mother, their tiny trunks trembling—whispering a goodbye filled with love, sorrow, and innocence.
Nalakite was everything to her three calves. Not only had the elephant matriarch given birth to them, but she’d raised them and guided them through life. So when Nalakite became terminally ill, her children were understandably distressed. The rangers, who work for Elephant Aware Masai Mara, an organization that monitors and protects elephants in the…
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An Elephant’s Broken Ankle From a Logging Accident That Never Healed Properly
In the quiet corners of a remote village in Southeast Asia, an aging elephant named Mae Suriya struggles to walk. Her once-mighty legs, pillars of strength in her prime, now tremble beneath the weight of an old wound—a broken ankle suffered during a brutal logging accident many years ago. While the world moves forward, Mae…
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Tears streamed down her face as the chains fell—each step into freedom a painful reminder of years spent in silent suffering.
For the better part of the last 20 years, this noble elephant named Kabu had been forced to slave away in chains – but now she’s finally free. And just as her body bears the scars of decades of mistreatment, her eyes are now shimmering with signs of hope. Kabu’s story is an all too…
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Their ribs showing and eyes hollow, the elephants search through garbage—once kings of the wild, now begging scraps to survive.
Locals say some of the animals have died after consuming plastic and other waste from the landfill site in Ampara, Sri Lanka Images and videos of a herd of desperate wild elephants rummaging through mounds of rubbish in a landfill site have drawn attention to the plight of the animals in Sri Lanka’s Ampara, where…
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For 15 long years, she’s stood alone in a bleak enclosure—her heart still mourning the friend whose absence silenced her world.
An African elephant at a zoo in India has been isolated in a bleak enclosure for 15 years following the death of his only companion. Now, a petition has been launched to remove the elephant from the zoo and rehabilitate him with other African elephants. The petition was filed by 16-year-old Nikita Dhawan, who is…
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A hungry elephant storms a Thai supermarket again—smashing through aisles for snacks, as stunned shoppers witness nature’s boldest repeat offender.
A convenience store had to deal with an unusual shoplifter in the form of a large male elephant who stormed in to raid the snacks. The elephant, known locally as Plai Biang Lek, has become famous in the region due to his frequent expeditions into human settlements.. He stormed into the shop, with his…
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Trapped for days in the drying dam, the elephants wept in silence—until love arrived, lifting them from despair to hope once more.
First, we had to establish if the elephants were alive. The video had been taken two days prior, and it wasn’t a given that they had ѕᴜгⱱіⱱed such a ɡгᴜeɩɩіпɡ period trapped beneath the baking sun. KWS went to investigate and found that, miraculously, both elephants were still clinging on. The гeѕсᴜe mission was on.…
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Once broken and afraid, the rescued owls returned home—eyes wide with wonder, finally safe, finally loved, where sorrow would never find them again.
When baby screech owls come through the doors of Austin Wildlife гeѕсᴜe, animal advocates always аttemрt to re-nest the babies with their original families. If they can’t be re-nested, these owlets don’t have to woггу — they’ll soon be safe with new loved ones. The tiny, orphaned owlets are initially kept in an incubator. Later,…
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Khanyisa, the baby albino elephant, screamed in silence—her tiny cheek torn by a poacher’s snare, innocence shattered by brutal greed.
A BABY albino elephant has been left with scars from her mouth to her ears after she was left trapped in a poacher’s snare for four days. Khanyisa was found alone and tangled in a snare at a private reserve close to the border of Kruger National Park, South Africa. These are the scars…