Category: Rescue Animals

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This 45-year-old elephant has been confined to a 12ft square room for 20 years. All four feet are chained, he is forced to lie in his own faeces, and he hasn’t seen daylight for over a year. Suraj is perilously thin, has a broken tail and is missing an ear, probably torn off when he…

Lost and confused, baby Ndotto followed cattle, not knowing he was an elephant—until kind rescuers brought him home.

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The young elephant and his family became mixed up with livestock belonging to the Samburu community in the remote Ndoto Mountains in Northern Kenya. Thirsty work: Ndotto the elephant, who got separated from its family when it followed some cattle, takes a drink from carers at a specialist elephant orphanage in Kenya Rescue: Barely a…

Tears streamed as the mother elephant nudged her lifeless calf, pleading for a miracle as rangers fought to save it.

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This is the dramatic moment a distressed elephant tries to rouse her baby from anaesthetic after the animal was caught in a poacher’s snare. Footage from Olare Motorogi Conservancy in south-west Kenya shows a calf being darted by a veterinary team with a tranquiliser after it was injured by a poacher’s snare on his hind leg. The distressed…

“Please wake up, Mum!” the baby pleaded, nudging her still body as another tugged, desperate to save her.

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This is the moment a baby elephant tried to wake its mother while another tried to pull the injured adult to safety after the two animals fell into a 20ft ditch. Video captured the moment a baby elephant tried to wake its mother after the two animals fell into a 20ft ditch Helping hand: Footage shows…

Chained and in agony, the mother elephant panicked, nearly crushing her newborn, her cries echoing pure desperation.

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Shocking footage captures the moment an elephant was chained down during a traumatic birth, nearly trampling her calf in distress. An elephant handler risked his life to pull the newborn baby from beneath its mother, after it had endured a difficult three day birth. Shocking footage captures the moment an elephant was chained down during…

For nearly 40 years, she’s swayed in silence, her only companions the echoes of a life she never chose.

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This elephant’s life is defined by concrete – the floors are concrete, the walls are concrete and even the “trees” are concrete. Mali, a 43-year-old Asian elephant, was actually born in the wild in Sri Lanka. But when she was just a baby, people ripped her away from her family and transported her to the…

Bloodied and trembling, the elephant collapsed as strangers raced against time, praying their help wasn’t too late.

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No one knows how long an African elephant suffered with a spear lodged in his back – but when people heard about his plight, they knew they had to help him. The bull elephant had been injured by people from the Maasai tribe in Kenya, who had thrown the spear at him when he presumably…

With gentle hands and kind hearts, the men freed the trapped elephant, reuniting her with her mother in joyful tears.

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Many animals suffering from drought in Africa are desperate for rain — but when it comes, it can cause some unexpected problems. For one devoted elephant mom with a newborn, a sudden shower threatened to separate her from her baby forever. The baby had slipped into a drinking trough in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, and…

Orphaned but not alone, the elephant lifts her dog friends with joy—three souls bound by unexpected, beautiful friendship.

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An orphaned elephant displayed her inseparable bond with two rescue dogs as she took her canine friends for a ride on her back in Thailand. Six-year-old female elephant Valentine sits down and lets the two-year-old black Labrador Hiccup sit on her back at the Tiemchan Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand The elephant, who was born…

Desperate to save her babies, the mother elephant sank too—three hearts trapped in mud, waiting for a miracle together.

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