Category: Rescue Animals
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Tears streamed down her face as the chains fell—each step into freedom a painful reminder of years spent in silent suffering.
For the better part of the last 20 years, this noble elephant named Kabu had been forced to slave away in chains – but now she’s finally free. And just as her body bears the scars of decades of mistreatment, her eyes are now shimmering with signs of hope. Kabu’s story is an all too…
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Their ribs showing and eyes hollow, the elephants search through garbage—once kings of the wild, now begging scraps to survive.
Locals say some of the animals have died after consuming plastic and other waste from the landfill site in Ampara, Sri Lanka Images and videos of a herd of desperate wild elephants rummaging through mounds of rubbish in a landfill site have drawn attention to the plight of the animals in Sri Lanka’s Ampara, where…
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For 15 long years, she’s stood alone in a bleak enclosure—her heart still mourning the friend whose absence silenced her world.
An African elephant at a zoo in India has been isolated in a bleak enclosure for 15 years following the death of his only companion. Now, a petition has been launched to remove the elephant from the zoo and rehabilitate him with other African elephants. The petition was filed by 16-year-old Nikita Dhawan, who is…
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A hungry elephant storms a Thai supermarket again—smashing through aisles for snacks, as stunned shoppers witness nature’s boldest repeat offender.
A convenience store had to deal with an unusual shoplifter in the form of a large male elephant who stormed in to raid the snacks. The elephant, known locally as Plai Biang Lek, has become famous in the region due to his frequent expeditions into human settlements.. He stormed into the shop, with his…
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Trapped for days in the drying dam, the elephants wept in silence—until love arrived, lifting them from despair to hope once more.
First, we had to establish if the elephants were alive. The video had been taken two days prior, and it wasn’t a given that they had ѕᴜгⱱіⱱed such a ɡгᴜeɩɩіпɡ period trapped beneath the baking sun. KWS went to investigate and found that, miraculously, both elephants were still clinging on. The гeѕсᴜe mission was on.…
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Once broken and afraid, the rescued owls returned home—eyes wide with wonder, finally safe, finally loved, where sorrow would never find them again.
When baby screech owls come through the doors of Austin Wildlife гeѕсᴜe, animal advocates always аttemрt to re-nest the babies with their original families. If they can’t be re-nested, these owlets don’t have to woггу — they’ll soon be safe with new loved ones. The tiny, orphaned owlets are initially kept in an incubator. Later,…
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Khanyisa, the baby albino elephant, screamed in silence—her tiny cheek torn by a poacher’s snare, innocence shattered by brutal greed.
A BABY albino elephant has been left with scars from her mouth to her ears after she was left trapped in a poacher’s snare for four days. Khanyisa was found alone and tangled in a snare at a private reserve close to the border of Kruger National Park, South Africa. These are the scars…
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“Stay with me,” the orphaned baby elephant pleaded with tearful eyes—finding warmth at last in the gentle arms of a surrogate’s love.
Baby Joe, the orphaned pygmy elephant at the Lok Kawi Wildlife Centre near Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo, has rediscovered comfort and joy with his ‘surrogate mum,’ keeper Augustin David. His visible distress brought wildlife officials to teагѕ. Joe’s mother was among 14 elephants that recently dіed in the tropical rainforest of Malaysia, victims of…
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So thin his ribs showed like sorrow, the 3-month-old elephant drank milk from strangers’ love—each drop a promise he wasn’t forgotten.
When Lek Chailert saw the baby elephant, she knew she had to do something – and quickly. The 3-month-old elephant was so thin and malnourished, you could count her ribs. If she didn’t get proper nutrition soon, she was going to die. While it’s unknown what happened to the baby elephant’s mom, or even how she…
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“Don’t leave me behind!” she cried, bruised and broken—until rescuers brought her home, where tears turned to joy in her mother’s embrace.
A baby elephant who fell into a steep-sided watering hole in Africa was determined not to die. Bruises appeared on her battered body as she struggled to get free of the hole that could have been her final resting place. It was early morning on August 14 in Kenya when people from the Taita Hills…