Category: Rescue Animals
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The depressed elephant, once sleepless and withdrawn, finally rested peacefully—her heart healing the moment her new friend stood beside her.
After being rescued earlier this month from an elephant riding camp, where she spent the last 20 years, she still couldn’t even sleep. She’d been awake for about a week straight when rescuers brought her to her new home, Phuket Elephant Sanctuary in southern Thailand. She was so weak, people had to give her fluids…
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Tears glistened as the elephant family reunited—once nearly torn apart by tragedy, their trunks intertwined in a silent promise of love.
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…
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El rescatista lo llamó Slugger, creyendo que ese cachorro abandonado en el campo, con amor, batearía su propio jonrón de vida.
Donde hay vida hay esperanza, y el miércoles, un rescatista de Dallas Dog – Rescue.Rehab.Reform se conectó con un perro abandonado durante una tormenta; esperaba en un lugar porque era leal. El cachorro callejero había sido visto en un campo de béisbol que ya había empezado a inundarse. La agente de Control de Animales, Erica,…
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Silent for 15 years in a crumbling cage, Ruben the lonely lion roared again—his first cry of hope in a new life.
For five years, Ruben the lion’s roars went unanswered as the last animal in an abandoned zoo. So scarred was the 15-year-old by solitary confinement in a tiny cage, he fell silent. But now Ruben is learning to roar again with the help of the British animal charity which rescued him. Jan Creamer, of Animal…
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Emaciated and forgotten, the starving lions turned on each other—desperation driving them to horror in the worst cruelty ever witnessed.
A PRIDE of emaciated lions began eating each other at a breeding farm in what has been described as the “worst animal cruelty case ever seen”. Thirty captive lions were left to starve after a fire broke out at their compound in the Free State province of South Africa. The starving lions started eating each…
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Vets knelt beside the elephant torn by a land mine—her eyes full of pain, yet still trusting human hands to heal.
A 22-year-old female elephant is being treated by vets after her foot was severely wounded in a land mine explosion on the Thai-Myanmar border. Mae Ka Pae, as she is called, is the 13th mine casualty to be treated at the innovative Friends of Asian Elephant hospital since it began operating in 1993. She arrived…
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Limping in agony with a festering wound, the mother elephant cried silently—until rescuers freed her from the poacher’s brutal snare.
A quick-thinking wildlife rescue team have saved an elephant’s life after it was spotted with a hunter’s snare attached to its leg. The elephant, known as Martha, was seen with the looped piece of wire tightly cutting into her leg as she wandered the plains of Zimbabwe with her calf. Catherine Norton (centre) was part…
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Wounded by a trap and gunshot, the baby elephant collapsed—until rescuers arrived, offering life-saving care and a fragile chance at healing.
Item 1 of 5 A three-month-old injured baby elephant, rescued after being caught in a hunter’s trap and suffering from gunshot wounds arrives for medical treatment and recovery at the Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Chonburi, Thailand, December 1, 2021. A three-month-old baby elephant was recovering in Thailand on Thursday following lifesaving treatment after being…
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Alien hunters claim a mysterious ‘monolith’ on Mercury is a doorway to another world—fueling bizarre theories of interplanetary portals.
Hold on to your tin foil hats, because this is a good one. Alien hunters have found what they claim to be an unexplained shadow on Mercury, which is caused by a large structure. Alien hunters have found what they claim to be an unexplained shadow on Mercury, which is caused by a large structure.…
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Shot in the leg and trembling with pain, the baby elephant found hope again in the gentle hands of kind men.
In a remote village near the edge of a protected wildlife area, a baby elephant lay collapsed—its tiny leg shattered by a cruel bullet. Crying out in pain, the calf could barely move, left behind by its fleeing herd and facing a slow, agonizing death. Locals spotted the injured elephant dragging itself through the underbrush…