Charlie the Elephant Returns to the Wild After Four Decades of Captivity In a momentous step for animal welfare, Charlie, the last elephant held at South Africa’s national zoo, has been released into the wild after spending 40 years in captivity. Captured as a calf...
Pangea Managing Director, Kate Moore, recently had the privilege of visiting our friends at Elephant Haven – European Elephant Sanctuary (EHEES), close to Limoges, southwest France. Read all about the visit below. A special thank you to founders Sofie...
Above: stock photo An elephant named Somboon who was captured as a calf and taken to a camp in Pattaya, Thailand where she was forced to give people rides every day for eighty years, has been rescued and rehomed at a sanctuary. “Grandma SomBoon is radiant and content,...
Asian elephant Punch and African elephant Mikki are set to leave Louisville Zoo in the US in order to relocate to Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary. The extract below is taken as a direct quote from the Louisville Zoo website. You can read the entire piece here:...
After living alone for decades at the zoo in Puerto Rico, Mundi the elephant is now living among other elephants at a refuge in Georgia. Mundi was among hundreds of animals who were removed from the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo, after the U.S. Department of Justice oversaw...
