Category: Rescue Animals

The youngster ignored his impatient mother, who ran her trunk over him, before finally getting up and chasing after her when zoo workers gave him a little nudge. This is the moment a lazy baby elephant slept so soundly even his own mother couldn’t rouse him A heartwarming video showed the stubborn little animal ignoring…

In the golden light of early dawn, a desperate cry pierced the stillness of the savannah. A baby elephant had fallen into a muddy ditch, too steep and slick for his tiny legs to climb. Frightened and stuck, he cried for help — and his mother came running. She was massive, powerful, yet in that…

An Elephant in a Well, and a Village That Refused to Give Up For 36 long hours, she lay trapped—her massive body wedged helplessly in a deep, narrow well. Her leg, badly injured, shook each time she tried to move. Exhausted, frightened, and in pain, the elephant let out soft, sorrowful rumbles that echoed across…

After months in a rehabilitation center, a young baby elephant named Kavi took his first steps back toward the wild. He had been rescued after falling into a deep pit, injured and terrified, separated from his herd in the chaos. During recovery, Kavi often cried at night, his tiny trunk reaching into the dark, longing…

When he was just 2 years old, Gen Thong lost his mother in the most agonizing way possible. There wasn’t enough space at the tourist camp in northern Thailand where they lived – so she was chained to a tree, while little Gen Thong suckled from her. Their owners, members of the Karen hill tribe,…

All the other elephants gathered around to play nanny. Twelve years ago, Galana arrived at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) as an orphaned elephant. She’d been found alone in a patch of thick saltbush at the border of the Tsavo National Park in Kenya. She was fragile, weak and scared to not be with…

Lucky the elephant started working in the circus when she was only 4 years old. Several years later she developed a terrible eye infection – but was still forced to work anyway. The harsh spotlights made Lucky’s eye infection worse until eventually she went completely blind. Elephant Nature Park Lucky was still forced to perform,…

For 55 years, an elephant named Tiny spent his days with chains wrapped around his body, hauling heavy logs through the woods of Thailand. “From sun up, to sun down, seven days a week, his job was to pull trees behind him,” Aaron, a rescuer from Planting Peace, said in a video for The Dodo.…

“It is believed that Wassana would have tangibly worked in the logging industry where she was forced to contribute to the destruction of her own habitat through felling and lifting heavy logs up out of the jungle tracks,” Lilli Ecmanis, tours and education manager at WFFT, told The Dodo previously. However, most of the difficulties…

The elephant, who is roughly 60 years old or older, had only been leased to Boon Lott’s Elephant Sanctuary (BLES) in Sukhothai, Thailand, where he rubbed trunks with new friends who had also just been rescued from the industry. Nwon’s owner wanted to let Nwon retire because he could not afford to keep him –…