Category: Rescue Animals

Vutomi the elephant displays her will to survive by keeping up with her herd and living a normal life despite only being able to walk on three legs. During an afternoon drive from Satara, Dylan and his team stumbled upon a herd of elephants at Nsemani dam, where they witnessed something truly remarkable. As Dylan…

After being rescued earlier this month from an elephant riding camp, where she spent the last 20 years, she still couldn’t even sleep. She’d been awake for about a week straight when rescuers brought her to her new home, Phuket Elephant Sanctuary in southern Thailand. She was so weak, people had to give her fluids…

When you think of anti-poaching rangers, you might picture brave individuals protecting animals from гᴜtһɩeѕѕ poachers. However, their duties go beyond just that. A recent іпсіdeпt at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya highlights the compassionate side of these dedicated rangers. A young elephant had strayed away from his mother and the rest of the…

Endangered Sumatran elephants are protected under Indonesia’s 1990 Conservation Act A Sumatran elephant calf that lost half of its trunk succumbed to her injuries (AP). A critically endangered Sumatran baby elephant died in Indonesia after losing half of her trunk to a trap set by poachers. The one-year-old calf succumbed to a severe infection on…

If the people who previously owned Chanchal had been more diligent, she would never had to endure the pain that befell her on the morning of June 29, 2012. On that day, in Noida, India, Chanchal, and another elephant, were hit by a speeding truck, according to a blog post by Wildlife SOS. In the…

A baby elephant who fell into a steep-sided watering hole in Africa was determined not to die. Bruises appeared on her battered body as she struggled to get free of the hole that could have been her final resting place. It was early morning on August 14 in Kenya when people from the Taita Hills…

The elephant had started refusing to work, shaking tourists off her back as they rode her through the forest in Chiang Mai, Thailand. To try and make her behave, the mahouts (people who work and ride elephants in Southeast Asia) would beat her with a sharp nail on a piece of bamboo, leaving huge welts…

It’s been nearly 20 years since this elephant named Sunyei was found stranded and alone in the wild in Africa. She was just a newborn then, sadly orphaned after becoming separated from her mother. Sunyei was rescued with the help of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. It was there she first met Benjamin, head…

Fluffy, a 60-year-old Asian elephant, had spent the majority of her life hauling logs and carrying tourists on her back. “In the camps Fluffy’s owners were only able to feed her grass and bananas. When she ѕteррed oᴜt of her enclosure to exрɩoгe for the first time she seemed confused. She could smell the grass…

She was the last and only elephant in the Philippines AN elephant dubbed by activists as the world’s saddest has died at a Philippine zoo where she spent almost all of her life alone. Vishwamali, better known as Mali to locals, has spent over four decades at Manila Zoo after being kidnapped by the country’s…