Category: Rescue Animals

  The elephant Ramba rests after arriving to the Brazilian Elephant Sanctuary located at the municipality of Chapada dos Guimaraes, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, on October 18, 2019. – The Asian elephant that spent decades performing in South American circuses has started a new life in an open-air sanctuary in Brazil, after travelling thousands of…

Mali’s death was announced on Tuesday in a Facebook video posted by Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna, whose happy childhood memories include frequent visits to see the elephant at the zoo. The beloved Asian elephant first started showing signs of distress last Friday when she was rubbing her trunk against a wall, a sign she was…

Faa Mai is an elephant full of love for one particular person — she’s obsessed with Lek Chailert, founder of Elephant Nature Park (ENP), the Thailand elephant sanctuary that Faa Mai calls home. Faa Mai, who will turn 9 years old this year, didn’t want Chailert to leave her. So, she followed her down to…

Seven years after Raju the elephant was released from chains, The People returns to see the legacy that’s saved 40 more and learns how readers can help the good work An elephant who cried as he was freed from 50 years spent in chains has learned to trust again after almost eight years in recovery.…

A heartwarming video has captured the emotional moment when Guillermina, an elephant who spent 24 years in captivity, first stepped out into her new sanctuary in Brazil. Guillermina, now 25 years old, and her mother were kept in an underground pit for decades. “Guillermina had never even had grass under her feet, so everything was…

  When at last after three exhausting days of tranquilizers and mud he stood swaying on the back of a truck destined for the national forest, Suria leaned in close, swung her trunk around and began lightly massaging his nose. He responded by twisting his trunk tightly around hers, clinging to her like a drowning…

An Asian elephant that spent decades performing in South American circuses has started a new life in an open-air sanctuary in Brazil, after travelling thousands of kilometers by plane and truck from a Chilean zoo. Ramba’s much-anticipated arrival at the 1,133-hectare (2,800-acre) Elephant Sanctuary Brazil in the central west state of Mato Grosso late on…

After years of suffering in silence—chained, beaten, and worked to exhaustion—many elephants finally find what they’ve never known before: peace. In sanctuaries across the world, their first moments of rest are more than just sleep—they are quiet testaments to resilience and the healing power of compassion. These gentle giants, once trembling in fear and pain,…

Zimbabwe captured dozens of baby elephants over the past year, tearing them away from their mothers and herds. Some young elephants shipped from Zimbabwe have already been placed in zoos, like these babies at the Taiyuan Zoo in China’s Shanxi Province. These photos give a glimpse of what likely awaits the baby elephants in their…

  A heartbreaking image shows a mutilated elephant dead on the ground after poachers hacked its head in half to get its ivory tusks. South African photojournalist Justin Sullivan, 28, used a drone to capture the devastation caused by poaching, with the trunk a few feet from the majestic mammal’s head which is believed to…