elephant rescue

S P Pandey runs SPOAR (Society for Protecting Ophiofauna and Animal Rights), an organisation that works to resolve animal-human conflict in West Bengal.

When a wild elephant was caught in the flooded Chalakudy River, it took compassion, quick thinking, and community effort to help the tusker find its way back to safety.

Despite what we do to them, elephants have rescued and protected us time and time again. Here's a reminder that we should learn some lessons from them!

It took several hours for the villagers to rescue the calf, but they didn't give up.

It all began with an alert by a local man on a tractor, who was on his way from the Vanabhadra Kaliamman temple in Mettupalayam to Thekkampatti and saw a cow elephant blocking the road with a herd in the background.