Elephant Archive
Save Elephant Foundation is a non-profit organization in Thailand. Its goal is to provide assistance and care for the population of captive elephants throughout Thailand. The organization uses rehabilitation and rescue programs, outreach in local communities and educational ecotourism in order to drive …
South Africa’s Kruger National Park, has an incredibly unique animal that now calls the park home. The rare animal that was spotted is a pink elephant! Nick Coertze, a South African resident was on a safari with his family when he noticed a …
This is a story of a baby elephant who was almost swept off with the river’s current, but rescued by his mom. Sandy Gelderman captured this on film when she visited the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya and spotted a family of elephants attempting …
A little elephant at the Chai Lai Orchid elephant camp in Thailand walks right up to her caregiver, named Allie, and starts snuggling up to her. She just plops right down on her lap and starts rolling around. This was the first time …
At the Fuji Safari Park in Japan, the staff came up with a wonderful way to help their elephants stay cool too! They built the elephants a 65-meter long swimming pool, naturally! Now that they’re swimming a few laps every day, the elephants …
These two elephants have been separated for over two decades after both survived a time performing in a circus. The training for circus elephants is a brutal process, and they often leave the circus because of an injury or disability that they received while …
When Pretty Boy, the elephant was shot in the head, he reached out for help. He not only survived the attack but had lived with the injury for several weeks before finding someone to help. After getting word of the injured elephant, veterinarians from the …
Kham Lha is one of the youngest residents at Elephant Nature Park, a sanctuary for pachyderms in Thailand. There, she’s formed a remarkable bond with one staffer in particular, a man named Darrick. So strong is her affection for him, in fact, that …
In Africa, the presence of an elephant can bring with it a target, as elephants are still hunted for their ivory. The ivory is sold on the black market as a form of holistic medicine, but has resulted in the near extinction of …
In Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, visitors caught a sight that many of us can relate to. This mama elephant needs to get them moving, but the baby is having too much fun. The mama elephant pushes, pulls, drags and prods the youngster with …
