Dramatic Rescue!
Dear friends,
Please watch this touching video… I love seeing people giving their greatest effort to save an animal, in this case, a baby elephant that fell into a 5 feet well. Saving an elephant calf is no easy task… This calf is about 8 months old of age which would mean she is still very young and unable to use her trunk or have the strength to pull herself out of the well. At the same time, she is not very light either! At birth, a calf can weight up to 120 kgs, that would make this 8 month old calf weigh about 400 kgs… not an easy task to rescue!
The people behind this amazing rescue is from a famous conversationalist group known as the Amboseli Trust for Elephants (ATE), a non-profit trust registered in Kenya and USA. Since 1972, ATE has placed great effort to ensure the survival of the African elephants, which are endangered to extinction due to legal and illegal ivory trade. On top of that, as local people in Africa expand their living settlements, the increased number of animal-people conflicts has been devastating… just like in this case, where an elephant calf was trapped in a well dug by the Masai tribesmen.
I would like to thank the people behind ATE for their consistent effort in protecting the welfare of these African elephants through their various community outreach, research and public awareness programs. I hope more help will come to them to aid their non-profit work. Watch the video on how just 3 members of ATE work tirelessly and not giving up to save this young elephant… even at the face of potential danger, they never give up. Such amazing attitude and resilience has made ATE what it is today.
Tsem Rinpoche
ATE team rescue baby elephant from a well
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Heroes of the day, compassionate ATE members risked their lives to save the 8 month old calf from certain death. Thank you very much!
About The Amboseli Trust for Elephants
The Amboseli Trust for Elephants (ATE) aims to ensure the long-term conservation and welfare of Africa’s elephants in the context of human needs and pressures through scientific research, training, community outreach, public awareness and advocacy.
The elephants of Amboseli in Kenya are the most celebrated wild elephants in the world. Since 1972, close observation by Cynthia Moss and her research team has led to intimate knowledge of these intelligent and complex animals.
Cynthia Moss, founder of ATE
Born and educated in United States, Dr Cynthia Moss has spent more than 30 years in Africa studying elephants and working for their conservation. She was born at 1940 in Ossining, New York, near Hudson River. In 1962 she graduated from Smith College with a degree in philosophy. Prior to ATE, she worked as a theater reporter for Newsweek magazine.
In 1967 she went for a trip to East Africa, where she visited Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania. Here, she met Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a leading elephant researcher. A year later, she quit her job in Newsweek and moved to Africa to become a research assistant for Iain. In 1972, she started the now famous Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) at Amboseli National Park in Kenya.
Since then, she and her research associates have identified and recorded more than 1,400 elephants. Without any formal scientific training, but armed with the passion for learning, she became the world-leading expert on African elephant family structure, life cycle, and behavior. Her research effort has contributed significantly to the conversation of the African elephant population.
(Source: http://www.elephanttrust.org)
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Happy ending when a group of animals lovers from ATE (Amboseli Trust for Elephants ) helped a baby elephant who has fallen into a well. Not an easy task after all, the baby elephant that weighs more than 400 kg at 8 months old. Well this Amboseli Trust under the founder Dr.Cynthia Moss and her research team did a marvellous job. Their conservation effort is aiming at the protection and sustainability of the African elephant population in Africa. Inspiring lady without any formal scientific training has helped thousands of elephants over the years. And has contributed to the conversation of the African elephant population in Africa.
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing.
Kundos to the compassionate ATE members who helped a baby elephant fallen into a well. The members even risk theirs life to save the baby elephant nor matter how difficulties they faced. Amboseli Trust for Elephants or known as ATE is a long-term research project aims to ensure the long-term conservation and welfare of Africa’s elephants. It was started and managed by renowned elephant researcher, Cynthia Moss. Elephants are a threatened species in East Africa and now a little over 1500 African elephants left. The ATE is doing a good job or else the elephants will go extinct in the near future.
Thank you Rinpoche for this wonderful sharing.
This is such a heart-warming story, to go the extra mile for an animal that cannot even say thank you. As a good human being, we have to be kind and generous to not just our kind but to animals as well. We should be even kinder to animals because they are the weaker ones.
Human beings take away their habitats but all they can do is to try to find another place to live in. They have no one to complain to, there is no justice for them. The least we can do is not to harm them and help them whenever we can.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this article. Thank you ATE for doing a good job in saving the elephant’s lives. Without ATE, the elephants will be endangered. It was so touching to see the baby elephant running back to his parents after he was saved from the well.
With folded palms,
Vivian
Touching video…..and interesting article too.The compassionate ATE members did a good job, risked their lives to save the 8 month old a elephant calf. That is incredible and dramatic rescue.They are like us with feelings and looking forward to freedom.Dr.Cynthia Moss and her research team has contributed to the conversation of the African elephant population and helped to saves them from extinction. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing .
It is just wonderful to know how far the ATE team were willing to go to rescue a elephant calf which got itself stuck in a well.
Saving an animal such as an elephant even though this one may just be a calf is no easy feat because of the elephant’s size and weight but the ATE team have clearly risked their lives to save the live of the elephant and this shows that they are full of compassion and are really committed in helping lives that are just as important as human lives.
The over slaying of elephants for the the elephant tusks is really a big problem as we are losing more elephants than there are more being born and profit driven humans don’t care about the huge number of elephants been killed for their advantage but at the very least, on the other side, we have the people like those from ATE to educate the locals and the world and makng win win situations between locals and animals.
I feel really happy to know that there are still so many people in the world who wants to dedicate their lives to protect the animals from extinction. Dr Cynthia is one of the examples, I really like people like that. Because they care more for the animals than themselves. And if the world doesn’t have enough people like them, not just elephant race extinction is in danger even other animals too especially tigers. I found out on the internet the other day that there are only 3,200 tigers left in the world. Because last time people used to hunt and kill tigers for their furs and some Chinese medicine. So now, more and more researchers are trying to breed more of the tigers so that they won’t face extinction so fast and hopefully more new tiger cubs would be produced naturally. Also thanks to the three compassionate people, the baby elephant did not starve to death and it’s happily living with its mother.
This is a amazing, these people are so kind that they care enough to rescue this poor poor animal that could not come out of the hole, if they did not come to save the baby elephant, it would have been stuck there and died. So these people understand that that is a life and it needs saving. Some people don’t see animals as other lives, they just see “mindless animals” and I see a baby that wants to see its mother.
At the end of the video, it shows the baby reuniting with his/her mother and that warms my heart and bursts of affection from animals are so nice to see because it shows us that they are lives and have feelings too, so we need to treat them like how we treat our own children or people. No matter what animal, we should give them all equal rights and show them that we care by not abusing them, killing them or abandoning them.
It was such a relief to see that the ATE people rescued the baby elephant and he/she was reunited with her mother. But animals die everyday and nobody can stop that because to people killing and eating animals is normal. It is truly the worst habit that exists. We all need to stop the biggest threat to animals which is the meat industry, hunting for the sport, scientific testing, animal labour and much more. We need to stop all animal cruelty, because that is the biggest threat to all animals. And this accident could have taken a young life but lives are being taken everyday by us. We need to stop this!
The ending of the whole rescue mission is so heart warming! We could see that the little elephant was so excited and relieved when it got out from the well, he was dashing towards its mom. This is another video to prove that animals also have feelings. People often say or think that they do not have feelings, so when they’re hurt they don’t feel pain because they are animals. The word “animal” is just used to specify them, just like the word “human” is used to reprensent the whole human race, living beings who communicate with different languages. But one thing we mustn’t forget is, we are all the same, animals are living beings and so are we, we all have feelings. I’m very glad that ATE was founded and has been assisting the elephants for so many years now.
Heroes of the day, i.e. the three people behind the amazing rescue, of an 8 month old intelligent baby elephant, weighing about 400 kgs, should be well applauded and appreciated for their consistent compassion and efforts of the day. Such amazing and resilence attitude have indeed made their conversational Group, led by Cynthia Moss what it is today. With such passion for learning she became significantly the world leading expert on elephant structure, life cycle and behaviour – a well deserved leader of Amboseli Elephant Research project at the national park in Kenya. Well done and congratulations to the group.
Beautiful rescue mission by the ATE members.
The long run by the baby elephant to its parents was so heart warming. A little bit of “drama”-like too, like how I see on shows 🙂
I am glad it is safe and sound.
What beautiful, touching video. It is so uplifting to see people doing such noble work, who would give up their comfort zones to save animals. They are truly admirable and real heroes we need more in the world today. If I am not in Dharma, I’d probably be working in some elephant sanctuary lol. It is really uplifting to see that there are people who care enough to protect the voiceless.
We definitely need to continue to create awareness on animal abuse, animal cruelty and be their protectors. They do not have anyone else, this is our duty as humans. To watch the baby elephant run to find his mummy was so touching and when they were reunited was just amazing and proves to us animals do feel, they are intelligent creatures and they know love and kindness… just like us humans, they too want freedom and happiness! Thank you for this post, going to share it!
This is a touching post about how people would put in their best efforts to save lives and rescue animals. This was what happened when an 8 month -old baby elaphant fell into a 5-foot well.The amount of patience and perseverance needed for this gigantic effort would have put off anyone else who was faint of heart, but not the 3 people from the Ambroseli Trust for Elephants.
The most heart warming scenes were those of the baby elephant running to meet his mother in the distance after being rescued!
The sight of the elephant calf being stuck in the well is just heart breaking. You could see the kind of fear that the elephant calf have in his actions the constant fear and panick that he is expriencing while he is in the well. Through the video I could tell that the mother elephant wants to help her baby as well. You could see that she trys to bend down to reach for her calf, letting her calf reach out for her tail to pull itself out of the well. However, we know that it is not possible as the baby elephant’s trunk is too weak to be able to pull itself out of the well.
I am just so happy that ATE members manage to direct the mother elephant away before they start the rescue mission for the elephant calf. I rejoice that the team did not give up even though that they saw that the mother elephant may hurt them by accident due to her being worried about her calf.
The moment that the calf is being rescued from the well is just breathe taking. the image of the calf and it’s mother dashing towards each other is so heart warming. The first thing that they did when they got near each other was to hug and show affection for each other. It just shows the kind of pure love that animals show each other.