Category: Rescue Animals

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It only takes a few seconds to see that love between a mother and child transcends species. When people in Kenya noticed a baby elephant with a poacher’s snare around his ankle in October, they reported that the calf needed help. The Olare Motoragi Conservancy dispatched rescuers to locate the calf – and they found…

With trembling legs and tearful eyes, the mother elephant stood guard, unwilling to abandon her wounded baby.

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Daniel Tom

Upon receiving photos of the calf, veterinarians from AWARE immediately began to track down the elephant – getting permission to search the parks from wildlife officials, and getting in touch with locals in the area to see if they knew anything about the young elephant and his troubling condition. From the photos provided, the team…

Chained and terrified, baby Raja’s desperate eyes pleaded for mercy, trapped by rage in a nightmare no soul deserved.

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In all the 30 years I have been working in Asian elephant conservation, I thought I had seen it all – blatant corruption, the rape and total disregard of our beautiful planet and sickening wildlife atrocities, to name but a few. All due to the most dangerous animal of all: homo sapiens. Raja is a…

Tiny trunks raised in fear, baby elephants stumble through pain, forced to perform in a cruel nursery built on heartbreak.

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Baby elephants are being bred into captivity to perform tricks for paying tourists, an investigation has found. Disturbing footage allegedly taken at Maesa Elephant Nursery in northern Thailand shows animals being hit and scraped by sharp metal bullhooks. One of the many baby elephants bred into captivity in Thailand (Picture: Amy Jones/Moving Animals) A keeper…

Tied in agony, the elephants endure whips and hunger, their spirits shattered by cruelty masked as control.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg and Commons leader Mark Spencer have refused to take part in a public debate on why they “blocked” a bill that would have spared elephants from torture in Asia. The Brexit opportunities minister and Mr Spencer are widely thought to have vetoed planned legislation to ban UK adverts for foreign theme parks where…

With one ear and a trembling heart, the temple elephant stepped into freedom, tears falling like rain from a broken soul.

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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,…

“Please don’t do this anymore”—the baby collapsed beside its chained mother, tears falling as silence gripped the crowd.

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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…

After years of chains and flashing cameras, she looked back once—mourning the life that stole her soul.

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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…

After 20 years of torture and broken legs, the rescued elephant took its first free step—shaking, but finally free.

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In an inspiring story that has captivated the world, a disabled elephant was finally fгeed from two decades of аЬᴜѕe, marking a ѕіɡпіfісапt turning point in its journey toward a life without ѕᴜffeгіпɡ. Chained and made to perform unnatural tasks, the elephant’s once ѕtгoпɡ spirit gradually weаkeпed, leaving it with both physical іпjᴜгіeѕ and emotional…

The baby elephant cried through the night, missing his mom, comforted only by kind strangers in blue shirts.

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