Category: Rescue Animals

This is the heartwarming moment a large herd of elephants stop to help a panicking calf get up a steep river bank. The young pachyderm desperately tries to follow a huge adult over a ridge in the MalaMala Game reserve in South Africa. The baby flounders and trips as it scrapes away at the ledge looming…

This is the moment a baby elephant tried to wake its mother while another tried to pull the injured adult to safety after the two animals fell into a 20ft ditch. Video captured the moment a baby elephant tried to wake its mother after the two animals fell into a 20ft ditch Helping hand: Footage shows…

An emaciated orphaned elephant calf was rescued from the wild in Kenya after tourists spotted him struggling to survive after a jackal attack- and is now thriving in a wildlife orphanage. The baby elephant, who was three or four months old at the time, was found wandering and struggling to survive outside Tsavo East National Park…

A baby elephant, who was found guarding the body of her dying mother, has been rescued and is now rebuilding her life in Kenya’s only elephant orphanage. One-year-old Zongoloni has found new friends (pictured) in other orphaned elephants and keepers at Kenya’s only elephant orphanage and is ‘strongly willed’ and a little greedy, as her…

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. Suraj is perilously thin, has a broken tail and is missing an ear, probably torn off when he…

The young elephant and his family became mixed up with livestock belonging to the Samburu community in the remote Ndoto Mountains in Northern Kenya. Thirsty work: Ndotto the elephant, who got separated from its family when it followed some cattle, takes a drink from carers at a specialist elephant orphanage in Kenya Rescue: Barely a…

This is the dramatic moment a distressed elephant tries to rouse her baby from anaesthetic after the animal was caught in a poacher’s snare. Footage from Olare Motorogi Conservancy in south-west Kenya shows a calf being darted by a veterinary team with a tranquiliser after it was injured by a poacher’s snare on his hind leg. The distressed…

This is the moment a baby elephant tried to wake its mother while another tried to pull the injured adult to safety after the two animals fell into a 20ft ditch. Video captured the moment a baby elephant tried to wake its mother after the two animals fell into a 20ft ditch Helping hand: Footage shows…

Shocking footage captures the moment an elephant was chained down during a traumatic birth, nearly trampling her calf in distress. An elephant handler risked his life to pull the newborn baby from beneath its mother, after it had endured a difficult three day birth. Shocking footage captures the moment an elephant was chained down during…

This elephant’s life is defined by concrete – the floors are concrete, the walls are concrete and even the “trees” are concrete. Mali, a 43-year-old Asian elephant, was actually born in the wild in Sri Lanka. But when she was just a baby, people ripped her away from her family and transported her to the…