Category: Rescue Animals

Two circus elephants named Sita and Mia spent 50 years in captivity, living their entire lives in chains. But thanks to Wildlife SOS, the two elephants have been rescued and are experiencing their first freedom at an elephant sanctuary in India. After years of being confined to chains the two elephants’ feet were in poor…

Mosha has been outfitted with prosthetic legs since 2008, a couple of years after she was rescued from the wild near the Thailand-Myanmar border. When Mosha the elephant was just 7 months old, tragedy struck – a landmine explosion claimed her right foreleg. Luckily, she was saved by Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital, a…

After Khan learned that the elephant in the Islamabad zoo had been chained for 28 years, she started a petition to free Kaavan that caught the world’s attention. In September 2015, animal activists finally won their fight to unchain Kaavan and allow him to walk around his enclosure. But they didn’t stop there. Today, the…

The old adage that an elephant never forgets appears to be true, based on a touching video showing an Asian elephant returning to her mother after years apart. After a 62-mile (100km) trek through the Thai jungle, Me-Bai, the small elephant can be seen nuzzling her mother, Mae Yui, while the pair joyfully flap their…

When a young calf had a mishap in the mud recently at a waterhole in South Africa’s Madikwe Game Reserve, the rest of its herd launched an equally muddled rescue mission. With the mother elephant trying desperately to scoop her calf to safety, most of the other herd members stood by without coming to her…

The bond between a mother and her child is priceless. And it is the same in the animal world as well. We have the perfect video as an example to show you. The clip features a baby elephant and its mother. In the clip, the baby elephant can be seen constantly rushing towards its mother…

The amazing moment was captured on film after the baby elephant appeared to collapse in the middle of a road in the Kruger National Park forcing the traffic to stop. The young elephant collapsed while crossing the road in the middle of the busy Kruger National Park in South Africa The calf tried to get…

A video of the CPR has gone viral on social media wherein Mana is seen giving two-handed compressions to a small elephant lying on its side A baby elephant in Thailand which was hit by a motorcycle in Thailand, fortunately survived after a rescue worker performed Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the injured animal. As a rescue…

Video footage captured the heartbreaking moment a grief-stricken mother elephant desperately tried to move the truck that killed her calf. The heavy vehicle collided with the young elephant in Perak, northern Malaysia, in the early hours of Sunday morning. The baby elephant is said to have died trapped under the front end of the motortruck. The…

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…