Category: Rescue Animals

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 –…

The senior elephant had tuberculosis (TB), a very common illness among captive elephants. But according to Toni Frohoff, an elephant biologist with In Defense of Animals (IDA), Packy didn’t show any signs of the disease, and was actually a very healthy and happy animal. “It’s devastating because the information that we have access to indicated…

Australian veterinarian Dr. Chloe Buiting is beloved on social media for her work with elephant amputees caused by land mines. @jungle_doctor/Instagram Here’s an elephant with a little more pep in his step. Australian veterinarian Dr. Chloe Buiting, aka the Jungle Doctor, is cherished among animal lovers on social media for her work with elephant amputees,…

In the remote outskirts of a wildlife reserve, a baby elephant collapsed to the ground, trembling and unable to walk—his leg shattered by a cruel bullet. Alone and in agony, he cried out, his tiny trumpet echoing through the trees like a desperate plea for mercy. But mercy came. A group of wildlife rescuers, tipped…

When rescuers found a 2-month-old baby elephant, barely alive and “lying comatose in a small cage,” they had no idea that, 15 years later, they’d be celebrating the birth of her own baby. Thoma was rescued in Central Kenya in 2001, after the forest where she and her herd had been living was pretty much…

After working for pretty much her entire life, a roughly 50-year-old elephant had no reason to believe anything would change. Gaew Ta, also known as Darling, worked in the logging industry in southern Thailand before retiring to do more work: giving rides to tourists in Phuket. Slowly, over the years, Darling went totally blind. So…

After an elephant family fell into a 14-foot deep construction pit in India, the 3-month-old calf couldn’t understand why his mom wouldn’t wake up, even though he kept nudging her with his little trunk. By the time rescuers arrived to take him away, his mother was unconscious. Even though they tried to revive her, she…