Category: Rescue Animals
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Trapped and dying in pain, the elephant lay motionless—unaware that kind hands were racing through the forest to save him.
We may never know how long he was lying there, but we do know that help came just in time. Warning: Graphic images below An elephant was found in Malawi’s Liwonde National Park completely debilitated by a snare trap digging into the flesh of his foot. But people were not going to let him…
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Heartbreaking images capture the elephant’s tear-streaked face, her eyes filled with sorrow and pain just moments before she took her last breath.
Newly released images from an Indonesian zoo have animal lovers up in arms this week. The heartbreaking photos show Yani, a Sumatran female elephant, sobbing moments before she passed away on Wednesday, after suffering from “blistering skin” and reportedly receiving minimal treatment. The 34-year-old endangered elephant died in a zoo in Bandung, West Java —…
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The heartbroken elephant stood over her dead calf, unmoving—refusing food, her silent grief stretching through endless days of unbearable loss.
Forest rangers in Gudalur, southern India, are increasingly worried about the female elephant, which has refused to eat and stands guarding her baby. Rangers say it shows the deep bond between mother and child elephants Heartbreaking pictures show an elephant who refuses to leave her dead calf’s corpse – refusing food and charging at anyone…
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Orphaned and alone, the baby elephants found each other—now inseparable, their bond blossomed through shared sorrow and a ranger’s gentle care.
Two orphaned baby elephants have become best friends after being rescued by a wildlife trust. Ashaka and Kamok were discovered in the wild separately after being abandoned by their mothers a year ago. Ashaka (left) and Kamok (right) were rescued by rangers and taken to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi National Park in…
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In Kenya, orphaned baby elephants are cradled with love—each rescue a tender promise of healing, hope, and a second chance.
To mark World Elephant Day, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has released behind-the-scenes pictures of efforts to save orphaned baby elephants in Africa, where up to 35,000 animals are killed for their tusks each year. As elephant populations suffer losses from poaching, habitat destruction and human conflict, the charity travels across Kenya to treat injured…
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Orphaned and grieving, the baby elephants are gently wrapped in blankets—soft warmth mimicking the mothers they’ll never feel again.
If you’re feeling the big chill that’s descended on much of the Northern hemisphere, then you’re probably wrapped up nice and warm with a big blanket. But whilst a winter blanket might be everyone’s latest seasonal obsession (and something of a fashion statement), at The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s Elephant Orphanage in Kenya, the…
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After eight lonely years, Kavaan found hope again—rescued by Cher, he learned to believe in life, love, and freedom.
Pointed bull hooks lunged into Kaavan’s side. Crowds had lined the fence of his enclosure to see Pakistan’s only Asian elephant and the sharp jab had meant that he was being told to perform for them. Kaavan was once dubbed the ‘world’s loneliest elephant’. He is pictured in Marghazar Zoo, Islamabad, Pakistan before he was rescued Pakistani…
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Sunder the elephant, once chained and beaten, now walks free—each step a triumph of love, courage, and long-awaited freedom.
Sunder is given as a gift to a temple in Kolhapur, India. At the temple, Sunder spends his days alone and chained in a dark shed. His mahout (handler) regularly beats him. Can you imagine being kept in a dark room by yourself and only ever seeing someone who hurts you? 2012 At one point, in…
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The mother elephant nudged her lifeless calf, eyes full of sorrow—refusing to believe the stillness that shattered her world.
Elephants are exceptionally intelligent animals, capable of experiencing and understanding a wide range of emotions. Not only that, they also understand death and suffering, in the same way humans do and a video going viral is a proof of the same. In the heart-wrenching video, a mother elephant tries to revive her three-year-old dead calf…
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Abandoned by his mother, the baby elephant wept—until the camp embraced him, becoming the family his heart so desperately needed.
In the lush forests of Tamil Nadu, a tiny elephant calf, initially rejected by its mother, found itself alone and lost in the wilderness. But this tale of heartbreak soon turned into one of hope and warmth. Rescued by kind-hearted caregivers, the precious baby jumbo was brought to an elephant feeding camp. In the lush…