Category: Rescue Animals

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…

The elephant had started refusing to work, shaking tourists off her back as they rode her through the forest in Chiang Mai, Thailand. 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…

It’s been nearly 20 years since this elephant named Sunyei was found stranded and alone in the wild in Africa. She was just a newborn then, sadly orphaned after becoming separated from her mother. Sunyei was rescued with the help of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. It was there she first met Benjamin, head…

Fluffy, a 60-year-old Asian elephant, had spent the majority of her life hauling logs and carrying tourists on her back. “In the camps Fluffy’s owners were only able to feed her grass and bananas. When she ѕteррed oᴜt of her enclosure to exрɩoгe for the first time she seemed confused. She could smell the grass…

She was the last and only elephant in the Philippines AN elephant dubbed by activists as the world’s saddest has died at a Philippine zoo where she spent almost all of her life alone. Vishwamali, better known as Mali to locals, has spent over four decades at Manila Zoo after being kidnapped by the country’s…

HEARTBREAKING footage of an elephant being beaten by her keepers has emerged, as animal rights charity PETA fight to rescue the magnificent animal from a temple in India. The 14-year-old elephant called Sunder has spent six years chained at the Hindu Jyotiba temple, near Mumbai. In December, a court ruled Sunder should be moved to…

After losing his mother Joe is urged to eat by a wildlife officer in Borneo (Picture: Sabah Wildlife Department/AFP) The orphaned elephant whose plight touched the nation when he was seen trying to wake his poisoned mother is feared to be dying from a broken heart. The Borneo pygmy calf is losing weight fast and…

A heartbreaking video showing “India’s skinniest elephant” being rescued and receiving medical care for the first time in her life, after 25 years of abuse and neglect, has been released by a wildlife charity.. The starving Asian elephant, Lakshmi, was rescued on January 1 and brought to a hospital in India run by conservation group…