Category: Rescue Animals

A family out fishing in a boat on a Wisconsin lake ended up coming to the rescue of a bear swimming with a plastic jug stuck over its head. Brian Hurt said he was fishing with his wife, Tricia, and son, Brady, on Marshmiller Lake, near Bloomer, when they noticed what they had initially thought…

Over three hundred people are celebrating after a mammoth effort to save the life of a stranded humpback baby whale, that got stuck on a Rio de Janeiro beach, ended successfully with the creature being released into the ocean in the late afternoon. Three hundred volunteers have helped to rescue a humpback whale calf after…

The video is a perfect example of a touch of warmth in adverse situations, which everybody needs their lives. A heartwarming video of a bird rescue is going viral on social media and the warmth from the video is all we need in this cold winter. Well, for us and for the bird. A beautiful,…

A couple who witnessed a pair of bald eagles plunge into a Maine river, tangled in what they later called a “death spiral,” cruised out onto the water, saving the birds’ lives. On one September day, as the couple were looking out over the water, two bald eagles flew overhead and became tangled in the…

Broken wing? Nevermore! A wounded raven underwent a rare feather transplant — in which she received feathers from another bird — to help her fly again. The poor bird was found injured and sick in a parking lot near Richmond, Virginia, by a Blue Cross worker, who rushed her to a wildlife center in March,…

In Israel, donkeys are treated with sickening cruelty by people who have never been taught that animal cruelty is wrong. Donkeys are starved, brutally beaten, and worked to the bone, often collapsing from extreme exhaustion or succumbing to their horrific injuries. When the animals get sick or old, they are abandoned by their owners and…

Two orphaned baby gorillas rescued in Congo were being cared for Tuesday by national park staff who fear their plight might signal a new escalation of wildlife smuggling by rebel groups fighting each other and Congo’s army. “Baby gorilla trafficking is terribly damaging for endangered gorilla populations because many members of the gorilla’s family will…

This is the incredible moment two bear cubs held hands as they waited for their mother to catch them a fish supper in Alaska. The pictures show the two cubs stood side-by-side as the smaller one paws at the bigger sibling’s back while they stare intently at their mother, who was hunting for salmon. Isn’t…

A baby eagle executes its first shaky flight from the nest, or fledges, at around 12 weeks of age, but its first period away from home is fraught with peril, as it often ends up on the ground where it is vulnerable to collisions with cars and trucks. An eaglet takes shelter under Sgt. Giralde’s…

A baby bald eagle is back safe at home thanks to a team of conservationists who rescued the chick after its parent accidentally knocked the eaglet out of their nest. Sharpe told the outlet that the chick — born on April 6 — fell into a gully somewhere between 10 to 15 feet below its…