Help bring Sandro home to Elephant Sanctuary Brazil

Help bring Sandro home to Elephant Sanctuary Brazil

It’s been several days now since Baby and the other elephants met each other across a fence line. So far, Guille and Baby have spent the most time interacting and seem to be learning more about each other’s communication styles. Baby’s energy is often exuberant, so it makes sense that she (34 years old) and Guille (27 years old),

Learn more about the reality of captivity for elephants, sanctuary, and how the elephants shaped the creation of Elephant Sanctuary Brazil.

Learn more about the reality of captivity for elephants, sanctuary, and how the elephants shaped the creation of Elephant Sanctuary Brazil.

Baby has been staying in the three yards closest to the barn in the female Asian elephant habitat, while the other five elephants are in the farther yards–though they have the ability to see and interact with Baby if they choose. On the way down to feed everyone dinner, caregivers noticed that Maia and Guillermina were near the barn looking at

Caregivers here at the sanctuary spend only a portion of their days around the elephants. There’s a lot of cleaning, food and medical preparation, and general maintenance that are part of a care team’s day. Of course, everyone–human and elephant–sees one another at meal time and during daily check-ins, but the main interactions with the elephants are at breakfast, dinner, and training or medical sessions.

The first night of the "Trois éléphants passent ..." street performance drew around 100,000 Taiwanese and foreign spectators to the streets of Taipei's Shilin District on Saturday, the opening night, with another performance scheduled for Sunday, according to the Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC).

You may remember the story of Paulo Guacamole, the wild-caught Orange-winged Amazon Parrot who was surrendered by his owner for a more appropriate life in the forest. Because the bird had been inside for so many years, he understandably had trouble flying at first. But, after spending time in the large section of the sanctuary flight cage,

Days after flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border in August 2026 killed hundreds of people, social media posts shared videos falsely claiming they showed elephants rescuing people from the floodwat...