Category: Rescue Animals

Her name is Wounda, but her name says it all. In the Congo it means ‘close to dying’ – and that is exactly how she was found when she was taken in by the Jane Goodall Institute’s Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of Congo. Never forget: Wounda hugs her caregiver and rescuer Dr.…

Chained up inside a dark concrete building in Jaipur, India, Suman the elephant calf can’t do anything but cry out for her mom. She’s only 6 years old — but her torturous and lonely role as a show elephant has already begun. Recent video taken by undercover agents with Wildlife SOS shows the young elephant…

The rhino named Gertjie and his new friend Lammie the goat are seen fooling around and having lots of fun in an adorable two minute video filmed in Pretoria, South Africa. Bond: Two orphans Little G the rhino and Lammie the goat have become ‘inseparable’ at the animal centre The adorable footage was captured by…

The 3-month-old elephant calf was first spotted by a camp manager at the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) in Zimbabwe during the first week of July. His right hind leg was severely swollen, leaving him in desperate need of medical attention. The camp manager took photos of the elephant and sent them to AWARE…

Nalakite was everything to her three calves. Not only had the elephant matriarch given birth to them, but she’d raised them and guided them through life. So when Nalakite became terminally ill, her children were understandably distressed. The rangers, who work for Elephant Aware Masai Mara, an organization that monitors and protects elephants in the…

Johannesburg Zoo, where Lammie has lived for the entire 39 years of her life, believes it can help Lammie by getting another captive elephant to be her friend. Yet animal welfare advocates believe this could do more harm than good — for both Lammie and the newcomer. While Lammie has only known life at Johannesburg…

Rescuers are desperately trying to find a seal that got its mouth stuck on a discarded Red Bull can. Onlookers alerted lifeboat teams after the marine mammal was spotted with the empty drink container dumped by a litter bug. Rescuers are desperately trying to find a seal that got its mouth stuck on a discarded…

Watch this adorable footage of the herd’s matriarch using her trunk to help lift a baby elephant up the side of a riverbank as he finds himself getting stuck. Watch this adorable footage of the herd’s matriarch using her trunk to help lift a baby elephant up the side of a riverbank as he finds…

Staff members at Animal Rescue Team have learned to expect a surprise or two from the coyote they rescued just six weeks ago. After all, she was the same animal who survived a 30-foot drop into a dried-out riverbed, dehydration, exposure to poison and, yes, a gunshot to the head. But they didn’t expect to…