Category: Rescue Animals

This 45-year-old elephant has been confined to a 12ft square room for 20 years. All four feet are chained, he is forced to lie in his own faeces, and he hasn’t seen daylight for over a year. In chains: Suraj cuts a pathetic figure before his rescue as he lies shackled at the Martand Temple,…

An elephant calf collapsed ‘with exhaustion’ while tied to its mother as she gave rides to tourists in eastern Thailand last week. The animal, believed to be around a year old, was attached to its mother by the neck with a length of rope in Pattaya. In the clip, filmed by a concerned tourist, onlookers…

Poaching, deforestation and tourism are three major threats to elephants in Asia, and very few get a second chance in life like Tofu, an 8-month-old elephant rescued from a life in chains in Laos. “I found Tofu at a horrible tourist riding camp in Laos while investigating another young elephant found stuck in chains for…

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Orphaned baby elephants are being raised by caretakers who spend all day and night with them helping them grow strong. They are from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) and they even sleep close by to the elephants so they can wake in the night to feed them. A keeper was speaking to The Dodo, he says…

This is not about keeping this baby elephant captive, and it’s about keeping them safe and taking care of this baby elephant until it recovers from the current state and its relevant herd is found. These baby elephants cannot rejoin any other herds it is an outsider to. In Sri Lanka, so many baby elephants…

The fifty-year-old male jumbo named Khun Pan had been working at the Chang Siam Park in Chonburi, eastern Thailand, giving rides to tourists until the Covid-19 pandemic hit the industry, with holidaymakers banned from visiting. Tragically, the elephant was left to starve – becoming so thin that his bones were protruding from his skin. Khun…

When venturing out to observe animals, like Victoria Craddock does, you never know what you’ll discover. On this particular day, she was hoping to find some elephants along the Sand River in South Africa. Luckily, it didn’t take much searching to find a whole herd of them out in the river — but one in…

Sunyei is a brave elephant who was rescued in the middle of the African nature when she was only about a week old. Unfortunately, she was orphaned after being separated from her mother. Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is one of the pioneering organizations in the conservation of wildlife and natural habitats in East Africa, they took…

New Delhi — Doctors at India’s first-ever elephant hospital are using every method at their disposal, from laser stimulation to ayurvedic massage and physiotherapy, to try to get a baby elephant back on her feet after she was struck by a train. It has been an uphill battle so far, and far from being a rare…