Category: Rescue Animals

Earlier this year, a video went viral on social media showing an orangutan defiantly advancing towards an excavator that was mowing down a tree. This photo was taken on the Indonesian island of Borneo, where deforestation is progressing. Then, in June 2018, it was revealed that the British media outlet Independent had reported on this…

Tamarack, an orphaned bear cub whose front legs were burned in a wildfire in Northern California last year, was being treated at a wildlife shelter. However, Tamarack escaped from the facility, and the staff was concerned about its safety, but recently, a trail camera installed in the forest captured Tamarack. Tamarack wasn’t alone. A toy…

A video has been released that seems to symbolize this. A herd of elephants is moving along a road in India, and the adults are surrounding the baby elephants, trying to protect them in an ironclad formation. No body on earth can provide better security than an elephant herd to the cute new born baby.…

A baby red squirrel which was found close to death has been nursed back to health by rescuers who even fashioned a pintsize hammock for the animal. The ‘almost-lifeless’ animal was discovered in a woodland ‘shivering, soaked and sodden’ after it was thought to had been blown out of a tree during high winds last…

A touching set of pictures taken in the Sabah region of Borneo show the calf getting into difficulty as it tried to clamber up the steep bank after crossing the river Kinabatangan with his mother. ‘The mother tried to push it but she couldn’t manage on her own so called on two members of her…

An elephant that was held in captivity for 35 years at a zoo in Puerto Rico has finally been freed and arrived at her new forever home on Friday. But on Friday, Mundi was transported to the Elephant Refuge North America sanctuary (ERNA) in Attapulgus, Georgia. The rescue and relocation were planned and carried out…

Last month, a rock climber named Kelston was scaling the natural walls of Susquehanna Riverlands State Park in Pennsylvania when he eyed something strange — a pair of wings awkwardly poking out from under a boulder. Anxious to help the eagle trapped underneath, Kelston immediately contacted Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), who…

An elephant that was held in captivity for 35 years at a zoo in Puerto Rico has finally been freed and arrived at her new forever home on Friday. But on Friday, Mundi was transported to the Elephant Refuge North America sanctuary (ERNA) in Attapulgus, Georgia. The rescue and relocation were planned and carried out…

An abandoned baby elephant that was found drowning in a muddy well in Kenya has been rescued. On May 18, villagers in Raku Bula, Merti, in the Cherab Community Conservancy, came across the trapped elephant calf. The calf was found lying in the muddy, shallow well with no family around, nonprofit organization the Northern Rangelands…

Heartwarming images have emerged of the moment an elephant calf and his mother were rescued by conservationists after they became trapped in mud. An elephant and her calf became trapped when they sank into soft, muddy ground near a dam in Kenya Conservationists from The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust came across the pair after they had…