Category: Rescue Animals
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After 24 hours trapped in a 70ft hole, the exhausted calf was lifted to safety—his cries turning into trembling relief.
A baby elephant spent more than 24 hours in a 70 foot-deep well before being winched to safety by locals. In a dramatic rescue operation, the ten-year-old calf was pulled out of the hole after being trapped there for more than a day. The calf was found in a dry but deep well on Tuesday…
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The elephant calf nudged his mother’s lifeless body, confused and crying—unaware she was poisoned, along with six others, for trespassing.
A heartbreaking photo shows an elephant calf desperately trying to wake its dead mother after its carcass was found in a forest. The young animal appears to be nudging its parent with its trunk in a hopeless attempt to revive her. The elephant was one of seven that is believed to have died at the…
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Chained, beaten, and broken, the “tourist” elephants carry joyless loads—living shadows of themselves, condemned to suffer until their final breat
Standing in the scorching sun, forced to walk with metal hooks, chains digging into their flesh – this is the brutal reality of elephants being used in tourism in Thailand. And British tourists are unwittingly playing a role in their suffering. There are more than 200 unethical elephant camps in Thailand, where tourists take…
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Lame, blind, and sick, the elephants toil endlessly for tourists—forgotten souls who suffer in silence until death grants release.
‘There are so many old, lame, blind, and sick elephants who remain in the tourist service until death.’ Plenty of Facebook posts have been penned about animals abused and exploited in the tourist trade — dolphins, tigers, elephants, and donkeys, just to name a few. And that has only encouraged more people to speak out against…
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The grieving mother stood over her lifeless calf, trembling—until the herd circled her, offering silent comfort through gentle, sorrowful touches.
Elephants are known for their fierce loyalty and their moving displays of emotion, but this story of an elephant mother mourning her baby only demonstrates how deeply these animals can feel – individually and as a group. The New India Express reports that a one-and-a-half year old baby wild elephant died early Monday morning…
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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…