Category: Rescue Animals

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…

The raven had gotten himself into a very uncomfortable — and dangerous — situation. A plastic lid from a frozen drink had become lodged around his neck and mouth, and he couldn’t seem to get it off himself. Luckily for the raven, a local woman, Dee Tsalis, spotted him in her neighborhood, flitting from roof…

The elephant had started refusing to work, shaking tourists off her back as they rode her through the forest in Chiang Mai, Thailand. To try and make her behave, the mahouts (people who work and ride elephants in Southeast Asia) would beat her with a sharp nail on a piece of bamboo, leaving huge welts…

The pit wasn’t actually that deep — people had probably been digging up soil there to use for brick molding, which had left a shallow hole in the ground. But the baby elephant was too small to get out on his own. And as hard as she tried, the mother elephant couldn’t get him out…

Farm animals band together to teach three-legged deer how to run. Rudie went through so much, but he was still the sweetest deer around. If you live out in the country, you probably see deer frequently. They’re always running around, chewing on grass and scampering through the forest. Most of the time, it’s best to…

The 40-year-old elephant had gotten stuck in some mud — and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get himself out. Earlier this week, team members from Big Life Foundation, a wildlife conservation group, saw the elephant near an outpost they use to monitor wildlife and look out for illegal poaching activities in Kiboko, Kenya.…

It was summer, earlier this year, when life totally changed for a senior bear named Napa. The roughly 20-year-old bear had been living in a concrete enclosure at a zoo in Serbia ever since 2009, when the country banned the use of wild animals in circuses. Even though Napa had only known a life of…