Category: Rescue Animals
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The baby elephant lay shattered beside the tracks, eyes wide with pain—his tiny body broken by a train he never saw coming.
A baby elephant was seriously injured after being knocked down by a train in Deepor Beel Bird Sanctuary, India Villagers look at a seriously injured baby elephant which was knocked down by a train…. Credit: EPA/STR ….in Deepor Beel Bird Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati city, northeast India Credit: AP The elephant was knocked…
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Left behind and wounded, the baby elephant cried alone—until kind strangers arrived, turning his sorrow into the first flicker of hope.
In the vast stillness of the savannah, a baby elephant lay wounded and alone. Limping from an injury and barely able to stand, he watched helplessly as his herd disappeared into the horizon, leaving behind nothing but dust and silence. Too weak to keep up, the little one was abandoned—not out of cruelty, but out…
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The baby elephant screamed in agony, her tiny leg crushed by a trap—innocence stolen before she could truly learn to walk.
An elephant calf has had a leg removed after it became entangled in a rope trap in Indonesia. The elephant – along with its mother and another calf – are believed to have been caught up in the ropes for several months when they were freed by conservationists. The traps are believed to have been…
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Six elephants died at the waterfall, each leaping in to save the last—love driving them into heartbreak they couldn’t escape.
Six wild elephants have drowned after slipping off a waterfall in north-east Thailand. Two others were saved after they became stranded while apparently trying to rescue one of those that fell into the current. The Thai Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation said officials in the Khao Yai National Park were alerted…
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The baby elephant cried beside his sick mother, refusing to leave—until Tamil Nadu forest officials stepped in to save them both.
Forest officials expressed the hope that the elephant would recover soon. On Friday, she was lifted and made to stand with the support of belt attached from a crane. An ailing female elephant which was being treated by the forest department since Thursday showed signs of recovery on Friday. Forest staff spotted the elephant, which…
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“Mummy, wake up…” the calf whimpered, nuzzling her lifeless body—refusing to leave, as if love could pull her back.
This is the heart-wrenching moment a baby elephant found its mother dead in the forest – and refused to leave her side. The two-year-old calf nudges its mother again and again – and even sits on her – during the vigil in Rajaji Reserve Forest in northern India. The desperate attempt to rouse the 40-year-old mother…
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Stuck and trembling in the mud, the exhausted elephant was gently lifted by a digger—each tug a step toward hope.
It was all’s well that ends well for this young elephant after it fell into a mud pit in Kenya. After wallowing in the dank ditch for up to 12 hours, these images and video capture the dramatic moment a digger saved the large mammal from a trunkful of trouble in a heroic rescue mission.…
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After 25 years carrying tourists, the elephant now stands hunched with a caved-in spine—his pain ignored, his spirit dimmed.
For 25 years, Pai Lin, now around 71 years old, was forced to carry as many as six tourists at a time, according to the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT), which warns against the “exploitative practices” of the wildlife entertainment industry. Side by side comparison of Pai Lin (left) with a deformed spine against Thung…
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After 50 years in chains and silence, the abused elephant stepped into freedom—tears falling as he tasted kindness for the first time.
For over 51 years, 70 year old elephant ‘Gajraj’ belonging to the Royal family of Aundh, in the Satara district of Maharashtra performed his duties as a temple elephant where local devotees saw him as an icon of worship as he played an important role in festivities and temple processions. A medical examination had revealed…
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“She just wanted her baby back,” they said—as the grieving elephant paced beside the wreckage, trumpeting cries no one could soothe.
The Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia (Perhilitan) has found itself in the spotlight following a tragedy that moved the nation — the death of a young elephant calf along the Gerik-Jeli highway. The grieving mother, now safely back in her original habitat, has rejoined her herd — a small but meaningful relief…