Category: Rescue Animals
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Lost and scared, the baby elephant was gently rescued in Johor—its eyes lighting up as kindness replaced fear with hope.
A baby elephant which got separated from its family and was wandering close to the human population was rescued by the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) in Mersing, Johor. According to the Perhilitan official Facebook page, the juvenile elephant, no taller than a grown man, had gotten lost and separated from its herd…
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Trapped and terrified, the wild elephant struggled between railway barricades—until foresters arrived, offering hope where fear had taken root.
While railway barricades have been placed along the forest fringe, the elephants outdo the barricades and risk their lives to move across the estates. Madikeri: A wild elephant that was stuck between a railway barricade was rescued by the forest department officials. The incident was reported at Valnuru-Tyagathuru limits in Kushalnagar taluk. A female wild…
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Abandoned and pulled from a deep well, the baby elephant trembled—until her first airplane ride carried her toward a loving home.
Her name is Korbessa, named after the region, where she was found stuck in a well. The tiny days old calf fondly called “little frog” might have been timid and shy, but she is growing to be a bossy little madam, and the cleverest of all elephants rescued by the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in…
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Tears rolled down the abused elephant’s face as chains were removed—each drop a release from years of pain and captivity.
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…
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Heartbreaking footage shows a crying orphaned baby elephant—its silent tears a warning as half of all species face extinction.
Upsetting scenes in his new series, which starts today, show a parched and psychologically damaged baby elephant — its adult relatives killed by extreme droughts — cry out as rescuers squirt water into its mouth. Sir David Attenborough confronts viewers with some of the most shocking images of his 66-year BBC careerCredit: PA:Press Association In…
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Trapped between tree stumps for a day, the baby elephant cried softly—until rescuers arrived, turning fear into gentle relief.
A baby elephant was rescued after becoming trapped in mud in Zimbabwe, on 2 October. Greg Hall and his group were travelling through Lake Kariba when they came across the trapped five-year-old. Rescuers carefully maneuvered ropes around the youngster’s legs and torso to free her. After her escape, the elephant ran towards her rescuers before…
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It’s heartbreaking—two elephants suffer as snares tear into their flesh, but a rescue team races to give them hope.
Two elephants in Zimbabwe are in life-threatening situations as you read this. Each has fallen victim to cruel wire snares – torture devices that cut dangerously deep into the flesh, cause severe tissue damage and likely leave the animal in agony. The elephants – members of two separate herds roaming the vast Lake Kariba region…
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With tender arms and steady steps, the forest official carried the baby elephant—reuniting it with its mother’s joyful, waiting embrace.
It all began with an alert by a local man on a tractor, who was on his way from the Vanabhadra Kaliamman temple in Mettupalayam to Thekkampatti and saw a cow elephant blocking the road with a herd in the background. It is not every day that one sees a baby elephant being carried by…
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The elephant calf, struck by a speeding train, let out one final cry—then fell silent, never to rise again.
An elephant calf that sustained critical injuries after being hit by a train in the Chunati area on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar rail line on Sunday night has succumbed to her injuries this afternoon The calf was transported to Dulahazara Safari Park in the morning for advanced treatment where she breathed her last around 5pm,…
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With shattered bones and a 2% chance of survival, the miracle baby elephant wobbled forward—each step defying heartbreak and fate.
Bani the elephant has learned to walk again after being given just a 2% chance of survival after the animal was hit by a train in an accident which killer her mother Her mother was killed in the accident in India and Bani was flung clear but suffered life-threatening injuries. She was given a 2%…