Both Asian and African elephant species are either endangered or critically endangered, with fewer than half a million of them left in the wild — a staggering and sobering statistic. Thankfully, a ...

An Asian elephant that spent decades performing in South American circuses has started a new life in an open-air sanctuary in Brazil, after travelling thousands of kilometers by plane and truck from a ...

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Mara, an Indian elephant rescued from an Argentine circus, arrived at an animal sanctuary in Brazil Wednesday to start a new life at 50-something -- beginning with a celebratory frolic in the dirt.

On Wednesday night, Woodland Park Zoo’s Asian elephants, Chai and Bamboo, were loaded onto a flat bed truck and began their 35 to 40 hour journey to their new home at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Elephant ...

There was some BIG news this week -- literally -- as a circus elephant escaped from her pen and roamed the streets of a Montana city. The escape has garnered mixed reactions. While some said it was ...

"This elephant's name is Ohka and she is 54 y/o standing in her own feces and urine with no access to water until he decides she needs it," wrote Kristina Cox in a post that has garnered more than ...

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When they were “retired” from performing at Circus World last August, the Asian elephants Viola and Kelly were to head to a sanctuary in Oklahoma where Circus World executive director Scott O’Donnell ...

The story of Viola the elephant escaping the Jordan World Circus on Tuesday in Butte was shared nationwide and beyond. Reports of her brief journey for freedom spread like wildfire. People frantically ...