Category: Rescue Animals

The videotape showed the man coming back day after day. In all, she was hit 48 times. This did not happen in the Far East, where Indian elephants are often subjected to brutal training techniques. This was in England, in Northamptonshire. And it was not any elephant: her name was Anne, and she was the…

A circus elephant showed deeply touching grief as her long time performing partner suddenly collapsed and died earlier this week. The pair Jenny and Magda had been inseparable for more than a quarter of a century in Russia. A circus elephant shows deeply touching grief as her long time performing partner suddenly collapses and dies Magda…

Thirty-five elephants who were saved from the Ringling Bros Circus are finally being shipped to a lush new habitat at Florida’s White Oak Conservation Center form. The first 12 of the herd were sent to the conservation centre, and for Michelle Gadd, a dedicated conservationist, this is a dream come true. She reflects on this:…

Watch a whole herd run to greetings a new rescued baby elephant “Dok Geaw” at Elephant Nature Park. Dok Gaew is one year and nine months old, he orphan baby elephant. When orphaned elephant Dogk Gaew arrives at Elephant Nature Park in Thailand, he doesn’t realize he’s about to be greeted by a whole herd…

Vutomi the elephant displays her will to survive by keeping up with her herd and living a normal life despite only being able to walk on three legs. During an afternoon drive from Satara, Dylan and his team stumbled upon a herd of elephants at Nsemani dam, where they witnessed something truly remarkable. As Dylan…

After being rescued earlier this month from an elephant riding camp, where she spent the last 20 years, she still couldn’t even sleep. She’d been awake for about a week straight when rescuers brought her to her new home, Phuket Elephant Sanctuary in southern Thailand. She was so weak, people had to give her fluids…

When you think of anti-poaching rangers, you might picture brave individuals protecting animals from гᴜtһɩeѕѕ poachers. However, their duties go beyond just that. A recent іпсіdeпt at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya highlights the compassionate side of these dedicated rangers. A young elephant had strayed away from his mother and the rest of the…

Endangered Sumatran elephants are protected under Indonesia’s 1990 Conservation Act A Sumatran elephant calf that lost half of its trunk succumbed to her injuries (AP). A critically endangered Sumatran baby elephant died in Indonesia after losing half of her trunk to a trap set by poachers. The one-year-old calf succumbed to a severe infection on…

If the people who previously owned Chanchal had been more diligent, she would never had to endure the pain that befell her on the morning of June 29, 2012. On that day, in Noida, India, Chanchal, and another elephant, were hit by a speeding truck, according to a blog post by Wildlife SOS. In the…

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…