This magnificent jaguar cub was discarded in a dumpster
Khali was a helpless cub when she was found abandoned in a dumpster in Santa Rosa del Yacuma, Bolivia. Torn from her mother and terrified, she cowered from her rescuers, confused, anxious and starving. Khali’s mother was likely killed to feed Bolivia’s brutal illegal trade in jaguar bones. We’ll never know for sure, but we […]
After 30 years of cruelty and abuse, this traumatised, blinded elephant has one final wish.
For almost 30 years, Boon Dee was forced into back-breaking labor in the tourist camps of Pattaya, Thailand. The poor animal carried endless busloads of tourists on her aching back, day after painful day. By the time she was rescued by our partner, Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT), Boon Dee was emaciated, nearly blind in […]
Sold online, this rescued baby gibbon is barely bigger than your hand.
Tiny Sombad, a white-cheeked gibbon, was just a few weeks old when he was ripped from his family in the Cambodian wild and caught in the terrifying world of illegal wildlife smuggling in Southeast Asia. Just a baby, he lost everything – the safety of his family; his natural habitat; his loving and nurturing mother. Credit: LCTW […]
The tragic elderly elephant forced to work for 60 YEARS.
With her disfigured spine and decades-old scars, Pai Lin’s 60 years of hard labor are etched into every inch of her battered body. Asian elephant Pai Lin, left, has a deformed spine. A fellow WFFT resident, Thung Ngern, right, displays a healthy dome-shaped spine. Spinal deformities in elephants can be caused by malnutrition or heavy […]
Track pangolins 💪 Stop poachers!
Five critically endangered pangolins, including a tiny baby and a very sick adult, have just been rescued in the nick of time from a horror meat market in Lao, Asia. Pancake the critically endangered pangolin receiving life-saving care at LCTW. Anti-poaching devices will enable our team to apprehend poachers in their tracks. Credit: LCTW The […]
Asian wildlife sanctuary forced to SHUT, placing endangered animals in peril.
Bound, butchered for their meat, or forced to live as captive chained “pets.” This is the reality for thousands of wild animals in the Asian country of Laos – and now, you have an opportunity to help rush some to safety. Read on… Wild animals, some just infants, are stolen from the wild and kept […]
Right now, criminals are “shopping” for wild animals!
Sickeningly, over the holidays, poaching skyrockets in Africa – as Asians “go shopping” in Africa for sought-after rhino horn and other animal parts. These are especially popular as gifts and shows of excess during Christmas and the Chinese New Year. We are ramping up our efforts to help thwart poachers in their tracks. Did you […]
LAST CHANCE to save 29 tigers and critically endangered leopards from CAPTIVITY!
A tiger farm that has kept big cats cruelly caged in appalling conditions in Thailand has been shut down by the authorities. Now, the big cats who live there are in urgent need of rescue. If we do not help get them to safety as soon as possible, a caged zoo existence is likely to […]