The Latest Breaking News from Wildlife SOS

What Temple Festival Processions Actually Do to Captive Elephants: Heat, Crowds and Hard Ground

The biology of an elephant in a crowdAn adult Asian elephant has a core body temperature of around 35.9°C and almost no sweat glands across most of its body. It dissipates heat primarily through its ears, a network of large blood vessels that radiate warmth when flapped, and through mud…

Times Life · Sep 17

Glass Manja and Kite Wing Injuries: How Bird Rescue Teams in India Repair the Damage

What Manja Actually Does to a WingGlass-coated manja is abrasive wire designed to cut a rival's kite string. At the speeds a black kite flies, up to 50 km/h in a glide, contact with a taut strand of manja acts less like a cut and more like a saw. The…

Times Life · Sep 14

What Animal Rescue Organisations in India Are Doing That Government Programmes Cannot

The number that explains everythingA female dog, left unsterilised, can produce two litters a year. Each litter averages six to eight pups. Factor in her female offspring doing the same, and the arithmetic becomes staggering within three to four years. The WHO has estimated India's stray dog population at roughly…

Times Life · Aug 2

In search of leopard prints: Ecotourism in 2023 boosts efforts to protect the majestic cats

A look at efforts to safeguard leopard population across India

The Hindu · May 3, 2023

Sambar rescued from deep well in Maharashtra's Junnar

PUNE: A Sambar stag was rescued by the state forest department and Wildlife SOS after it was found trapped inside a 50-feet-deep open well near Ghatghar village in Junnar Forest Range.

The Times of India · Feb 3, 2023

Two leopards rescued in less than 24 hours in Maharashtra

PUNE: In a late-night operation recently, conservation organisation Wildlife SOS and the Maharashtra Forest Department rescued a 7-year-old leopard from a 30-foot-deep well in Navalewadi village, which comes under the Otur Forest Range in the Pune district.

The Times of India · Dec 12, 2022

Leopard spotted napping on highway side rescued in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar

PUNE: An adult leopard which created quite a stir after it was spotted napping on the side of a highway near Dhotre village, in Ahmednagar district, was successfully rescued by Wildlife SOS and the Maharashtra Forest Department recently.

The Times of India · Dec 12, 2022

Wildlife SOS' Simon Cowell reveals terminal cancer diagnosis and vows to continue legacy

The presenter of Wildlife SOS Simon Cowell has sadly been diagnosed with lung cancer as his Foundation vows to continue his legacy and commitment to animal rescue

Daily Mirror · Aug 10, 2022

Adorable baby leopard cub nursed back to help - thanks to his 'mum' teddy bear

Simba is being nursed back to health after almost starving to death and a cuddly leopard is part of the healing process say the wildlife volunteers looking after his recovery

Daily Mirror · Jun 25, 2022

Paul O'Grady's dogs - forced return, tragic deaths and devastating diagnosis

The For the Love of Dogs host shares his home with a menagerie of pets including dogs, chickens, pigs, sheep, goats and alpacas

Liverpool Echo · Jun 11, 2022