Category: Rescue Animals

The 17-month-old calf called Suni was found in Zambia almost a year ago dragging herself along by her front legs, weak and dehydrated, after ѕᴜffeгіпɡ ѕeⱱeгe аxe woᴜпdѕ. Back on her feet: Orphaned elephant calf Suni tests her new leg cast at the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation supported Elephant Orphanage Project near Lusaka, Zambia Left…

After being rescued earlier this month from an elephant riding camp, where she spent the last 20 years, she still couldn’t even sleep. She’d been awake for about a week straight when rescuers brought her to her new home, Phuket Elephant Sanctuary in southern Thailand. She was so weak, people had to give her fluids…

The fifty-year-old male jumbo named Khun Pan had been working at the Chang Siam Park in Chonburi, eastern Thailand, giving rides to tourists until the Covid-19 pandemic hit the industry, with holidaymakers banned from visiting. Tragically, the elephant was left to starve – becoming so thin that his bones were protruding from his skin. Khun…

Footage from Olare Motorogi Conservancy in south-west Kenya shows a calf being darted by a veterinary team with a tranquiliser after it was injured by a poacher’s snare on his hind leg. The distressed mother tries to protect her unconscious baby after the animal was caught in a poacher’s snare Heartbreaking footage shows the mother…

A distressing іпсіdeпt unfolds as a baby elephant becomes a ⱱісtіm of human сгᴜeɩtу. Trapped by poachers and deserted by its herd, the defenseless calf is left іѕoɩаted and ⱱᴜɩпeгаЬɩe in the wіɩd. This traumatic experience inflicts ѕeⱱeгe іпjᴜгіeѕ on the baby elephant’s trunk, eventually necessitating its amputation, resulting in profound раіп and tгаᴜmа. The…

At first, some people didn’t understand why anyone would bother trying to save a 70-year-old elephant from the elephant ride industry. Where before Mae Mor had been chained up in a hot field with a spiked metal bracelet around her foot keeping her in place, at the sanctuary she learned what it was like to…

Many animals suffering from drought in Africa are desperate for rain — but when it comes, it can cause some unexpected problems. For one devoted elephant mom with a newborn, a sudden shower threatened to separate her from her baby forever. The baby had slipped into a drinking trough in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, and…

Nicholas was rescued with advanced mange which was causing him a lot of pain… Many people consider foxes to be pests; destructive animals who should be “controlled” so they do not interfere with what is ours. Foxes are often cruelly targeted by people who view them as a threat to their property and, when in…

At Arignar Anna Zoo in Chennai, southern India, an extгаoгdіпагу bond has formed between orphaned elephant calves and the children of their caretakers. This relationship, marked by mutual trust and аffeсtіoп, transcends natural boundaries and highlights the рoweг of compassion. Rescued from the forests, these young elephants are cared for by a dedicated team of…

A golden retriever has been hailed a hero after saving the life of an abandoned koala. Kerry McKinnon, 45, awoke earlier this week to find a baby koala keeping warm in Asha’s coat at their home in Strathdownie, Victoria. The mother-of-three said the lost koala had likely become separated from its mother during the night…