Category: Rescue Animals
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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%…
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The pregnant wild elephant died in agony after biting a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers—her unborn baby lost to cruel laughter.
A PREGNANT elephant suffered a torturous death after pranksters fed her a pineapple packed full of lit explosive firecrackers. Authorities have launched a manhunt for those responsible for the disgusting “prank” in the south Indian state of Kerela. The heavily pregnant young elephant had wandered into a village on the outskirts of the park.…
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After nine days lying helpless on the ground, 17-year-old ailing elephant Noor Jehan took her last breath—forgotten, broken, and grieving.
Noor Jehan, an elephant in Pakistan’s Karachi Zoo whose illness revived criticisms of the nation’s zoos, died on Saturday despite frantic efforts to treat her, officials said. The critically ill 17-year-old elephant had fallen into a pond this month and been unable to get up without help. “After fighting for 9 days, she succumbed to…
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After a tragic train accident, the baby elephant miraculously stood again—each step a testament to courage, love, and second chances.
Left paralysed after a train accident, baby elephant is now walking short distances A baby elephant hit by a speeding train in northern India has completed her one year of recovery, showing miraculous results. Named Bani, the nine-month-old elephant was hit by a speeding train in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand. The elephant was…
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Touching photos capture an elephant family, once nearly torn apart, now reunited—trunks intertwined, hearts beating in harmony after unthinkable pain.
One of the saddest things about elephants in captivity is how often mothers and babies are torn away from each other. But this lucky family escaped that fate – and their rescue was captured in a stunning series of photographs. Until recently, Apple and her daughter Princess lived at one of the many Thailand elephant…
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After 40 years in chains, the elephant lifted her trunk to the sky—finally free, her eyes glistened with pure joy.
An infection on her gray head caused by beatings from a bullhook and an abscess on her massive left leg show the signs of four decades’ worth of abuse for Wassana. The 46-year-old elephant had spent the vast majority of her life working to carry tourists in circles through the streets of Thailand — where…