Category: Rescue Animals

A brave rescuer put his hands in harm’s way to free a distressed hawk that had become trapped in fishing lines. The man’s footage shows him walking along a riverbank and spotting the bird in the shallows, with its tattered wings submerged in the water. This is the moment a brave man rescued an ensnared…

  We have seen a lot of videos showing professional animal handlers and regular people working together to save and free animals that have either fallen into pits or been trapped. Here, a lone guy is attempting to free a wolf whose front leg has become entangled in a trap. An unusual rescue video has…

The goat had been intended as the tiger’s lunch, but now the pair have become some of the animal kingdom’s most unlikely friends. Staff at a Russian safari park are ‘stunned’ at the goat’s bravery and the Siberian tiger’s readiness to make friends with his meal. Extraordinary images show Amur, the obedient big cat, reduced…

A tiny loggerhead turtle was found on Northland’s Ninety Mile Beach, covered in barnacles. After being nursed back to health at Auckland Zoo, it has been transferred to Kelly Tarlton’s. A young loggerhead sea turtle was found very far from home when it washed up on Northland’s Ninety Mile Beach last week. A member of…

This little zebra is now named Shaq — but he almost didn’t survive.   Shaq was just 3 weeks old when he was spotted in the wild in South Africa by people who realized that there was something seriously wrong with him. They contacted The Rhino Orphanage, a sanctuary and rehabilitation center for orphaned rhinos…

Baby chimp Leo got a wonderful greeting from his new friends. These baby chimps can’t stop hugging their newest friend “They each literally ran over and just fought over who got to hug him! “He was so fearful coming in, after all the trauma he had suffered … but that reception really sealed the deal…

Fishermen rescued two drowning wild brown bear cubs in a Russian lake with video footage showing the remarkable affinity between beast and man. In the footage, thought to have been taken last month, the wild animals had lost their mother crossing the lake after she overestimated their swimming abilities. The bear can be seen desperately…

A baby bald eagle is back safe at home thanks to a team of conservationists who rescued the chick after its parent accidentally knocked the eaglet out of their nest. Sharpe told the outlet that the chick — born on April 6 — fell into a gully somewhere between 10 to 15 feet below its…

When venturing out to observe animals, like Victoria Craddock does, you never know what you’ll discover. On this particular day, she was hoping to find some elephants along the Sand River in South Africa. Luckily, it didn’t take much searching to find a whole herd of them out in the river — but one in…

They may be known for being cunning, but this fox has been been described as ‘all brawn and no brain’. This clumsy fox found itself trapped between the wooden panels of a fence as it darted across some back gardens After spotting the fox struggling to free itself, the homeowners called out the RSPCA to rescue…