Category: Rescue Animals
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Please Stop! Under Scorching Heat and Chains, Elephants Endure Daily Suffering in Thailand’s Heartbreaking Tourism Industry
Standing in the burning heat, jabbed with metal hooks, with chains cutting into their flesh – this is the cruel reality behind elephant tourism in Thailand. Elephant-related tourism in Thailand is a £415million-a-year industry (Image: Save Elephant Foundation) Elephant-related tourism in Thailand is a £415million-a-year industry and is based on stealing calves from their mothers…
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Brother, Hold Me Tight: Lion Siblings Find Comfort in Each Other After Months of Struggle in a Refugee Camp
Lion Siblings Cling Together During Rescue From War-Torn Gaza Mona and Max became minor celebrities earlier this year when a Gaza resident purchased the 2-month-old cubs from Gaza’s Rafah Zoo, which had been damaged by airstrikes and was financially struggling. Animal welfare group Four Paws quickly noticed the situation was untenable. Raising lion cubs is…
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Trapped and Terrified: A Raccoon’s Three-Day Struggle on a High-Voltage Pole Ends in a Heartwarming Rescue
A Massachusetts raccoon that was stuck on top of a high-voltage electric pole for three days is safe after townspeople, police and the power company banded together to get him back on the ground. A raccoon who was stuck on top of a utility pole in Berlin, Massachusetts, was rescued after three days Townspeople, police…
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From Backstage to Safety: Meet Axl and Slash, the Baby Owls Rescued from Under a Guns N’ Roses Stage
Owl chicks rescued from under Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage after Guns N’ Roses set given the best names Two owl chicks found hiding under the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury have been rescued and named after the band. The poor little guys were found chilling – or not – under the headliner stage after the Guns N’…
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From Loneliness to Love: Orphaned Bear Cub Finds Comfort in a Toy Bear, Creating Heartwarming Moments of Joy
Tamarack, an orphaned bear cub whose front legs were burned in a wildfire in Northern California last year, was being treated at a wildlife shelter. However, Tamarack escaped from the facility, and the staff was concerned about its safety, but recently, a trail camera installed in the forest captured Tamarack. Tamarack wasn’t alone. A toy…
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After a Decade of Waiting, a 70-Year-Old Mother Turtle Finally Sees Her Eight Babies Hatch in a Beautiful Moment
A 70-year-old giant tortoise in ‘рeаk physical condition’ has fathered a whopping eight baby Giant Galapagos tortoises. Dirk, named after рoгп star Dirk Diggler from Boogie Nights, mated with three females he shares a pen with in Crocodiles of the World in Oxfordshire. In March it was гeⱱeаɩed that two baby tortoises had hatched from eggs laid…
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“Oh My God, What Is This Place?”—Vets Race to Save the Last Starving Lions in a Sudanese Zoo After Heartbreaking Plea
Sudanese vets scrambled today to save four surviving captive lions of five that were left sick and malnourished in a Khartoum park during months of political and economic turmoil. A malnourished lion walking inside its cage at the Al-Qureshi Park in Khartoum, Sudan. A video taken at the Al-Qureshi Park in Khartoum showed emaciated lions living…
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“Please, Dig Me Up”—Woman’s Beach Stroll Turns Heartbreaking as She Finds a Face Buried in the Rocks
It was the sound of someone crying out for help. Following the cries, Rachel came to find this — a young seal pup trapped between the rocks of a seawall and buried up to his neck in sand. It’s unclear how the seal came to be in such a desperate predicament, but Rachel could see…
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Too Tired to Fly—Exhausted Bald Eagle Rescued at Sea by a Kind Fisherman, Given a Second Chance at Life
Canadian fisherman Dan Dunbar was cruising in a boat near Nanoose Bay, British Columbia when he spotted a young bald eagle floundering on the surface of the water. As Dunbar began to think of how he might try to help, the bird used his wings to inch closer to the vessel, speaking aloud to offer…
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Look! I Have a New Leg!—Farmers Gift an Alpaca a Prosthetic, Bringing Back Her Joy and Freedom
When John Barnett went out to the barn at Blowing Oaks Ranch in Batesville, Arkansas to check on their alpaca herd, he was alarmed to discover that 6-week-old Cinco had broken his leg while playing. Since animals sometimes keep running on broken limbs, the alpaca had damaged his leg so badly that it had to…