Category: Rescue Animals

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…

At first, some people didn’t understand why anyone would bother trying to save a 70-year-old elephant from the elephant ride industry. Where before Mae Mor had been chained up in a hot field with a spiked metal bracelet around her foot keeping her in place, at the sanctuary she learned what it was like to…

It was an ordinary day for Jack Thompson as he drove through a quiet stretch of highway when an unexpected visitor dropped in—quite literally. A majestic bald eagle, appearing suddenly out of the blue, fell right onto the hood of Jack’s car! Pulling over to assess the situation, he was startled to find the bird…

It would have been easy to have missed the gray seal pup trapped between the boulders. The man reported the seal’s stranding, and Stokes and her colleagues at Seacoast Science Center went to help. Stokes said she thinks the young seal got stuck between the rocks after some rough weather. The young seal likely hauled…

Guests and staff at a vacation spot in Kenya acted fast when they spotted a baby elephant being swept away in a flooding river — and it meant the difference between life and death for the little animal. “Our staff and guests were involved in the dramatic rescue of a baby elephant from the flooded…

A mother elephant had collapsed next to a well after getting tangled in an electric-wired fence that surrounded it. When the villagers called forest rangers for backup, they discovered the reason why she had gotten trapped in the first place: Her baby had fallen into the well. “The family of more than 40 were crying…

The screech owl had gotten himself into a very sticky situation. He’d landed in a glue trap and now he was stuck — he couldn’t move his feathers or feet, and he definitely couldn’t fly away. “He did not look too good when he first came in,” Gerspacher said. “He was definitely very, very sticky, and…

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…

Life had just been turned upside down for this little calf. Wandering near a river in Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park, 1-year-old Mukkoka was all alone, and his mother or other elephants were nowhere in sight. He was tired, lonely and scared. They were doing an aerial sweep of the area in a plane when…

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…