Category: Rescue Animals
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She stood frozen beside her mother’s lifeless body, tiny trunk trembling—unable to understand why love ended with a hunter’s spear.
This is the heartbreaking moment that an orphaned baby elephant mourns the death of her mother after she was killed for her ivory tusks by a poacher’s poisoned spear. This is the heartbreaking moment than an orphaned baby elephant mourns the death of her mother after she was killed by a poacher’s poisoned spear for…
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Too weak to follow, the baby elephants collapse alone—abandoned by desperate mothers forced to choose survival over love in a dying land.
Almost straight from the get-go they treated me like one of the herd, playing with my hair and sniffing my wheelchair. Adorable baby elephants are being deserted by their parents and left to DIE because of climate change in AfricaCredit: BBC TV presenter Ade Adepitan visited a Nairobi orphanage in Kenya last yearCredit: BBC As…
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As rescuers whispered goodbye, tiny orphan Fenya wrapped her trunk around their arms—her fragile heart quietly slipping away in silence.
The orphaned elephant calf, Fenya, who captured the hearts of locals in Hoedspruit, South Africa, and social media users worldwide with her brave battle to survive – after falling victim to snaring – has tragically passed away, leaving the team who valiantly tried to save her absolutely gutted. South Africa’s first elephant orphanage, HERD (Hoedspruit…
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Alone and fragile, the baby elephant braved the wild for weeks—until kind hands finally came and cradled her to safety.
This is the captivating story of Olomunyak, or little Ollie, an orphan found abandoned and surviving on his own in the wild, until he was rescued. It was presumed that the calf’s mother was one of the deceased. What was astonishing is how the little calf attempting to survive, had latched on to the company…
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The rescued calf trotted beside its new herd, tiny trunk swaying—finally surrounded by the family it had always dreamed of.
When Phabeni was just four months old, he was spotted wandering alone near the Kruger National Park in South Africa, with his mother and herd nowhere in sight. Our partner, HERD, raced to his rescue. They found the little calf covered head-to-toe in wounds and showing signs of severe starvation and dehydration. Judging from his…
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Starved of space and freedom, captive Asian elephants have less body fat than humans—proof their suffering hides behind silent statistics.
Asian elephants in captivity have a lower body fat percentage than the average human and are no more likely to be overweight than their wild cousins, a new study shows. There have been fears the giants of the animal kingdom may be overweight and this could be causing low birth rates – potentially leading to…
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When chains fell from Raju’s legs, tears streamed down—silent proof that even elephants grieve the years stolen from their souls.
If Raju had been human, these tears of relief would be touching, though by no means surprising. But, considering that Raju is an Asian elephant, his tears tugged on the heartstrings of animal lovers around the world. It’s an endearing story — but do elephants cry in the same way that humans do? In…
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With every limping step, the three-legged elephant whispers, “I know my herd loves me”—their warmth carries what she’s lost.
Vutomi the elephant displays her will to survive by keeping up with her herd and living a normal life despite only being able to walk on three legs. During an afternoon drive from Satara, Dylan and his team stumbled upon a herd of elephants at Nsemani dam, where they witnessed something truly remarkable. As Dylan…
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Chained 20 hours a day in a cramped shed, the elephant sways in sorrow, dreaming of a freedom never known.
Twenty-year-old Kothai, a female elephant, who is short chained and cramped in a small concrete shed in Adi Keshava Perumal temple in Sriperumbadur for nearly 20 hours a day is likely to develop chronic health conditions, if proper care is not taken. As per the official records, accessed by Express, Kothai was born in 1998…
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Trapped and sinking fast, the elephant cried out—until volunteers raced against time, uniting in a desperate battle to save her.
These pictures show how a band of volunteers managed to rescue an elephant who had got herself in a tight spot by falling into a sewage drain. I’m stuck! Guests and staff at the Ugab Rest Camp in Namibia found this elephant cow trapped in a sewage drain when they woke up one morning Trapped:…