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Elephant Rescue Round Up of the Day: Employees at Zambia’s Kapani Safari Lodge were alerted to a mother elephant and her calf stuck in a patch of mud.
Despite their good intentions, the elephants’ herd was simply unable to help out, so the humans decided to step in and lend a hand.
Working with members of the South Luangwa Conservation Society and other local wildlife officials, the rescue team was eventually able to free the frightened animals, who wandered off at their leisure.
“[It was] heart-warming to see how many local people joined in the efforts to free the two elephants,” said a Kapani Lodge staffer. “It was the happiest possible ending.”
Below: Another recent elephant rescue with a happy ending, and a far more adorable incident involving a baby elephant stuck in mud.
The South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) is the world’s most endangered species of tiger - less than 30 remain in the wild, and only around 60 in captivity. What is remarkable about conservation efforts for this particular species is that populations are being returned to the wild in a controversial project that takes them via South Africa.
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