Category: Rescue Animals

A 23-year-old elephant named Thong Phoon has spent most of her life being forced to give rides to tourists at trekking camps in Thailand, in Thailand, which requires a particularly brutal training called a “crush” that starts at a very young age. Thong Phoon has given birth to two calves, both of whom were taken away…

Spending most of her days in a concrete cell behind steel bars, Sunny is constantly rubbing her trunk along the walls of her enclosure out of boredom. Years of scratch marks riddle each of the barren walls. It has a chilling resemblance to a prison cell. “She stands on concrete for prolonged periods, which is…

On Monday, a semitruck carrying five elephants, held captive by a European circus company, overturned along a highway in Spain. One animal was killed in the horrific accident, while four remaining survivors were left injured and disoriented as traffic backed up around them. Photos of the aftermath, which shut down the road for more than…

In the wild, she would be surrounded by her loving family and roaming miles together each day, but instead she is on her own and being brutally trained to prepare her to perform at circuses. Recent video taken by undercover agents with Wildlife SOS shows the young elephant writhing in her pen while continuously bobbing…

The elephants can’t move. Metal chains are wrapped around their legs, holding them firmly in place. The only thing they can do is sway their heads back and forth, and tentatively reach out their trunks. But the main issue is the chaining itself, which stops elephants from expressing natural behaviors such as lying down, playing,…

In early September, people living near Tsavo East National Park in Kenya came across a bizarre sight — in the middle of a dam was a strange gray lump. It was a baby elephant. “The conditions surrounding the dam were extremely difficult with slippery mud, and it could be that the herd were simply unable…

The elephant family was being chased across a stretch of land in the Maasai Mara Nature Reserve in Kenya. Their assailants, a group of villagers, were using spears and arrows to attack the elephants. But help wasn’t far behind. A ranger from the Mara Elephant Project (MEP) witnessed the attack and alerted the rest of…

“The most incredible, magical, unexpected display took place … ” 🐘❤️️🐘 Mae Dok is nearly 60 years old and she’s spent her entire life in a small town in Thailand, where she was an attraction for tourists. Mae Dok spent years standing by a small bridge, begging for treats. Now that’s her old life. It’s…

He sniffed around in the air to recognize his mother’s smell, but had no luck catching the scent. In this heartwarming story of compassion, we saw a baby elephant running to humans when he got lost on the way to find his mama. In India’s Assam, lies a protected wildlife land, Kaziranga National Park, where…

Earlier this month, a herd of wild elephants were making their way past a village in Assam, India, when the unthinkable happened. Amid their hurried trek to the safety of the forest, an 8-week-old elephant calf traveling with them had somehow gotten left behind. After assessing the young calf’s health, rescuers then managed to pick…