Category: Rescue Animals

Life had just been turned upside down for this little calf. Wandering near a river in Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park, 1-year-old Mukkoka was all alone, and his mother or other elephants were nowhere in sight. He was tired, lonely and scared. They were doing an aerial sweep of the area in a plane when…

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…

The raven had gotten himself into a very uncomfortable — and dangerous — situation. A plastic lid from a frozen drink had become lodged around his neck and mouth, and he couldn’t seem to get it off himself. Luckily for the raven, a local woman, Dee Tsalis, spotted him in her neighborhood, flitting from roof…

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…

The pit wasn’t actually that deep — people had probably been digging up soil there to use for brick molding, which had left a shallow hole in the ground. But the baby elephant was too small to get out on his own. And as hard as she tried, the mother elephant couldn’t get him out…

Farm animals band together to teach three-legged deer how to run. Rudie went through so much, but he was still the sweetest deer around. If you live out in the country, you probably see deer frequently. They’re always running around, chewing on grass and scampering through the forest. Most of the time, it’s best to…

The 40-year-old elephant had gotten stuck in some mud — and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get himself out. Earlier this week, team members from Big Life Foundation, a wildlife conservation group, saw the elephant near an outpost they use to monitor wildlife and look out for illegal poaching activities in Kiboko, Kenya.…

It was summer, earlier this year, when life totally changed for a senior bear named Napa. The roughly 20-year-old bear had been living in a concrete enclosure at a zoo in Serbia ever since 2009, when the country banned the use of wild animals in circuses. Even though Napa had only known a life of…

Minnie looked sick and worn-down — but instead of being able to rest, the old Asian elephant was forced to give ride after ride to people at a fair. “She’s clearly very sick and her feet hurt really bad,” Collyer wrote in a Facebook post about Minnie that went viral. “She kept picking them up and…

Rangila has been through some extraordinarily rough times — but things have finally turned around for the sloth bear in the best possible way. In December 2017, help finally came for Rangila and another sloth bear named Sridevi, who were known to be the last two dancing bears in Nepal. Instead of transferring the bears…