Category: Rescue Animals
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From the depths of the mud, a tiny trunk reached out—trembling, pleading—for a second chance at life and a touch of kindness.
Visitors driving across Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park spotted something in the mud, they slowed and saw a tiny trunk moving. It was a baby elephant who was obviously exhausted and in desperate need of help. Rescuers also noticed tracks in the mud where a mother elephant had obviously tried tirelessly to pull her baby…
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After years of carrying tourists in silence, she felt love for the first time—gentle hands, kind eyes, and freedom she never imagined.
To try and make her behave, the mahouts (people who work and ride elephants in Southeast Asia) would beat her with a sharp nail on a piece of bamboo, leaving huge welts on her sensitive skin. Even with the constant beatings, the elephant – Mae Kam – refused to behave. Before she was forced to…
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After so much pain, the rescued baby elephant finally felt joy—splashing in his first bath, unaware tears filled every watching eye.
When a baby elephant named Chaba first set foot in a little plastic tub filled with fresh water, it was unlike anything she’d experienced before. Chaba was born in a small concrete pen at an elephant riding camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Her mother, BunMa, was forced to do daily shows — riding a bike,…
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Her tiny ankle shredded to the bone, the baby elephant died in agony—her cries unheard, her suffering the price of human cruelty.
A baby elephant has died after suffering horrific injuries when a hunter tied her up and abandoned her in a forest in eastern Thailand. The one-month-old elephant was found by villagers in Rayong, tethered to a fence with a rope cutting deep into her ankle and exposing her bone. Heartbreaking: The one-month-old elephant was found by…
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Bleeding and alone in the paddy field, the handicapped baby elephant lay trembling, abandoned by a world that never gave him a chance.
A month-old baby elephant was found lying in a paddy field, bleeding from its mouth, after being beaten and abandoned by its mother, outside the Buddhangala Wildlife Sanctuary, in Ampara. Early on Thursday morning, residents of the village of Walathapitiya woke up to see a mother elephant desperately trying to push its infant into the…
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Alone again, she stood in silence, swaying gently, mourning the loss of her last companion—the final piece of her shattered family.
Johannesburg Zoo, where Lammie has lived for the entire 39 years of her life, believes it can help Lammie by getting another captive elephant to be her friend. Yet animal welfare advocates believe this could do more harm than good — for both Lammie and the newcomer. While Lammie has only known life at Johannesburg…
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Torn from their mothers, the kidnapped baby elephants lie wounded and weeping, their innocent eyes filled with pain no soul should bear.
A group of baby elephants who were sold to China by Zimbabwe are suffering terribly after just a few months in captivity. Zimbabwe tore the young elephants away from their wild families before shipping them off to China in July. Photos obtained by National Geographic show just how poorly the young animals are faring, subjected…
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Trapped in the pit, the baby elephant cried beside its injured mother, their pain echoing through the silence of shattered trust.
Assam Forest Minister PR Brahma instructed officials to lodge a First Information Report against the firm because of the incident. An elephant calf, its mother and another male from their herd were injured in Assam’s Sonitpur district on Wednesday after they fell into a trench at the Patanjali Mega Herbal and Food Park construction site.…
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Wounded by a trap and bullets, the baby elephant collapsed—until gentle hands reached in, fighting to save what was nearly lost.
Item 1 of 5 A three-month-old injured baby elephant, rescued after being caught in a hunter’s trap and suffering from gunshot wounds arrives for medical treatment and recovery at the Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Chonburi, Thailand, December 1 A three-month-old injured baby elephant, rescued after being caught in a hunter’s trap and suffering from…
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Orphaned Baby Rhino Seeks Love from Kind Humans After Losing Mother to Poachers
In the heart of the African savannah, a baby rhino named Kibo is slowly learning to trust again. After tragically losing his mother to poachers, Kibo was found wandering alone, confused and scared, his tiny cries echoing in the silence she left behind. Rescuers brought him to a wildlife sanctuary, where at first, he kept…