Category: Rescue Animals
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After 20 years in chains, the elephant takes her first free steps—each one echoing a silent cry for stolen dignity.
India, has been conducted with the full consent of the current owners of the animals. The elephants will soon find their permanent home at Vantara, an environment that naturally mirrors their native habitat, where they will live chain-free and will never be forced into labor. Jamnagar, Gujarat: Vantara, a renowned rescue center for captive elephants…
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Abandoned by its herd, the frail elephant calf lay trembling—until kind forest officers knelt beside it, whispering hope into despair.
An elephant calf abandoned by its herd was rescued by a team of vets and forest officers near the border town of Sullia in Karnataka. The calf belonged to a herd of eight wild elephants that had been frolicking in the Payaswini River until Saturday evening. The herd had three calves but one of them…
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The three-month-old calf glanced back at his dying mother, eyes wide with grief, before disappearing into the forest—alone and heartbroken.
Since Thursday morning, the calf went into the forest after its sibling interacted with it and the mother elephant. A three-month-old elephant calf that was wandering around its sick mother at the foothills of Maruthamalai for the last two days, left its mother and joined its sibling and went into the forest on Saturday morning.…
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The calf watched, trembling, as vets leapt on his mother’s chest—each jump a desperate plea to bring her back to life.
The 10-year-old bull and her baby calf, one, had slipped into a concrete drain amid heavy rain in Nakhon Nayok, central Thailand yesterday afternoon. A storm had made the grass wet and muddy, causing the pair to fall into the 7ft-deep hole. The one-year-old calf looks on with concern as her mother, ten, was jumped…
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After 20 years of chains and beatings, the disabled elephant took her first free step—tears falling as silence replaced pain.
Meet Kabu, an elephant in Thailand who was rescued in 2017 after years of abuse and poor conditions. For more than 20 years, Kabu worked in a mountain village, hauling logs along steep roads. Forced to continue working with an injured leg, she eventually developed a debilitating limp as the injury failed to heal…
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The baby elephant clumsily splashes into a puddle, then adorably flails—until mom arrives, lifting him gently with her loving trunk.
For one baby elephant who was more than likely abandoned by his herd after getting himself stuck, help couldn’t come quickly enough. On Sunday, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) was alerted to the plight of the elephant, who was in need of serious assistance. The young male calf, who lives in Kenya’s Tsavo National…
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Trapped and fading, the elephant lay in silent agony—unaware that help was racing toward him, fighting to rewrite his fate.
We may never know how long he was lying there, but we do know that help came just in time. Warning: Graphic images below An elephant was found in Malawi’s Liwonde National Park completely debilitated by a snare trap digging into the flesh of his foot. Frank Weitzer/Cluny Wildlife Trust But people were not…
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Left for dead by poachers, the baby elephant now heals—his scars deep, but his trust slowly returning with each new friend.
Rescuers found the baby with a gaping wound in his head and badly damaged leg as he clung to life in an ivory poacher’s snare Making friends: The injured baby elephant was saved by a rescue team after being caught in on a poacher’s snare and attacked with a spear (Image: Barcroft Media) The baby…
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Severely disabled and struggling to stand, the elephant calf lay in the dust—alone, broken, and waiting for a miracle.
Wildlife officers have encountered a severely disabled elephant calf in Mattala during an operation to drive away wild elephants in the Suriyawewa area in Hambantota. Officers informed about the elephant calf to veterinarians at the Udawalawa Elephant Transit Home and later took the calf with them to the elephant transit home on their instructions. Malaka…
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The three-month-old elephant calf looked back one last time at his ailing mother, then vanished into the forest with silent sorrow.
Since Thursday morning, the calf went into the forest after its sibling interacted with it and the mother elephant. A three-month-old elephant calf that was wandering around its sick mother at the foothills of Maruthamalai for the last two days, left its mother and joined its sibling and went into the forest on Saturday morning.…