Bird's Life

13/12/2025

POLAND BANS FUR FARMING — A HISTORIC WIN FOR ANIMALS‼️🇵🇱❤️

Huge news! Poland’s President, Karol Nawrocki, has officially signed the Animal Protection Act into law — banning fur farming nationwide.

As Europe’s largest fur producer, with over 3.4 million mink, fox, chinchilla, and raccoon dogs, this decision marks a powerful shift and sends a strong message to the entire EU as they consider a continent-wide ban.

President Nawrocki said it best:
“This is a decision that Poles have awaited for many years… a decision that reflects our compassion, our civilizational maturity, and our respect for all living creatures.”

A massive victory for animal welfare, compassion, and progress. 🐾✨

09/12/2025

Copa’s Last Comfort: A Keeper’s Love for Her Old Friend in His Final Moments
Copa, a 45-year-old chimpanzee who had spent most of his life in a small concrete cage, found trust and friendship with his keeper, Anna, at the sanctuary. As his health rapidly declined, Copa retreated into himself, refusing food or water, signaling that he was ready to let go.
Despite the vet team's recommendation, Anna couldn’t bear the thought of him passing alone. She broke protocol and entered Copa’s enclosure, gently combing his hair and holding him in her lap. In his final moments, Copa relaxed for the first time in days, comforted by the keeper who had been his friend for 15 years.
Anna promised him that he wasn’t alone, offering him the love and peace he had always deserved but never received. Copa’s last moments were filled with warmth, a final act of compassion between two old friends.

Copa’s Last Comfort: A Keeper’s Love for Her Old Friend in His Final Moments
Copa, a 45-year-old chimpanzee who had spent most of his life in a small concrete cage, found trust and friendship with his keeper, Anna, at the sanctuary. As his health rapidly declined, Copa retreated into himself, refusing food or water, signaling that he was ready to let go.
Despite the vet team's recommendation, Anna couldn’t bear the thought of him passing alone. She broke protocol and entered Copa’s enclosure, gently combing his hair and holding him in her lap. In his final moments, Copa relaxed for the first time in days, comforted by the keeper who had been his friend for 15 years.

Anna promised him that he wasn’t alone, offering him the love and peace he had always deserved but never received. Copa’s last moments were filled with warmth, a final act of compassion between two old friends.

07/12/2025

A huge welcome to a miracle baby! 🎉 Bioparc Valencia Zoo in SPAIN is celebrating the birth of a healthy BABY WHITE RHINO after the mother, Duna, completed an astonishing 491-DAY PREGNANCY (over 16 months)!

Born on November 21, 2025, this is the first WHITE RHINO birth at the zoo and a monumental success for the European Conservation Program (EEP). 🦏

Like all rhinos, this species is vulnerable and threatened with extinction in the wild. Every birth is a crucial step in maintaining the global population, ensuring the survival of this magnificent species. Congratulations to the team! 💚

06/12/2025

At the clinic, the vet said he was lucky to survive. Emma named him Buddy and stayed by his side day and night.

04/12/2025

Come on, Mom, Hold Me: Heartwarming video of baby koala clinging to its mother days after birth has captured the attention of millions around the world

This adorable video shows a newborn koala clinging tightly to its mom, melting hearts all over the internet.

03/12/2025

“You won’t believe this heartwarming story – a baby hippo born two months early fought the impossible battle to survive and finally reunite with its mother. ❤️

02/12/2025

During the devastating NSW bushfires, young koala Ellenborough Lewis was rescued from the flames by Toni Doherty, whose bravery saved him from immediate danger. Despite round-the-clock care, his injuries were too severe, and he was gently put to sleep. Lewis’s courage and the compassion of his rescuer and carers touched hearts worldwide, leaving a legacy of love and bravery.

02/12/2025

When photographer Anil Prabhakar entered the Bornean jungle, he hoped only to glimpse an orangutan. What he witnessed instead was a gesture that spoke louder than words.

As a crew member struggled in the thick river mud, a female orangutan moved closer. She anchored herself with one hand and stretched out the other — palm open, as if offering to help. For three long minutes, she held that pose, her eyes fixed on the man’s struggle.

The man did not take her hand. He later explained he could not risk interaction — both for his safety and hers. But Prabhakar had already captured the moment: a species so often harmed by humans instinctively reaching out in compassion.

The photo, when shared, rippled across the world. More than an image, it was a mirror — reminding us that empathy is not ours alone. Sometimes, the most human act comes not from us, but from the wild.

01/12/2025

A newborn rhino calf named Daisy was found alone, just hours old, trembling and weak. Rescuers rushed her to intensive care, where she received round-the-clock treatment—but she was still missing something vital: a companion.
Then came Modjadji, a tiny zebra foal rescued after storms left her barely alive. Both orphans had lost their mothers far too soon, but together they found comfort. What began as cautious curiosity grew into inseparable friendship.
Now Daisy and Modjadji eat, play, and even sleep side by side—two survivors healing through each other’s presence. One day they’ll return to the wild, but for now, they’ve chosen each other as family.
Sometimes, the family you choose is the one that saves you.

A newborn rhino calf named Daisy was found alone, just hours old, trembling and weak. Rescuers rushed her to intensive care, where she received round-the-clock treatment—but she was still missing something vital: a companion.

Then came Modjadji, a tiny zebra foal rescued after storms left her barely alive. Both orphans had lost their mothers far too soon, but together they found comfort. What began as cautious curiosity grew into inseparable friendship.

Now Daisy and Modjadji eat, play, and even sleep side by side—two survivors healing through each other’s presence. One day they’ll return to the wild, but for now, they’ve chosen each other as family.

Sometimes, the family you choose is the one that saves you.

01/12/2025

“Goodbye Mom, I’m Going” – Orphaned Elephant Crying Over Mother’s Body For The Last Time Saved From The Brink Of Death By Dedicated Rescue Team

“Goodbye Mom, I’m Going” – Orphaned Elephant Crying Over Mother’s Body For The Last Time Saved From The Brink Of Death By Dedicated Rescue Team

01/12/2025

Growing tired of his pet, the owner cruelly tied the dog to a landfill near his home, abandoning him to fend for himself...

30/11/2025

In 1963, at the age of 31, Dian Fossey used her entire life savings and took out a bank loan equivalent to one year's salary to fulfill her lifelong dream of traveling to Africa. After her trip, Fossey -- who was born on this day in 1932 -- was determined to permanently relocate there and dedicate her life to studying the shy and reclusive mountain gorillas, whose population was teetering toward extinction.
Following her first seven-week safari through Kenya, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Fossey returned to Louisville, Kentucky where she had been working as an occupational therapist. There, she encountered anthropologist Louis Leakey when he was on a lecture tour and he suggested that Fossey start a long-term study of mountain gorillas. Similar to how he helped support Jane Goodall begin her study of chimpanzees in Tanzania, Leakey helped line up funds for Fossey's project and she left to establish the Karisoke Research Foundation in a remote rainforest in Rwanda in 1967.
Fossey ran an extensive study of mountain gorillas for 18 years and was considered the world's leading expert and a fierce protector of these "gentle giants." After one of her favorite gorillas, Digit, was killed by poachers in 1977, Fossey created the Digit Fund, now the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, to fund anti-poaching efforts. Fossey and her colleagues devoted significant attention to anti-poaching activities, including running poaching patrols, destroying poacher's traps, pressuring local authorities to enforce anti-poaching laws, and helping in the arrest of poachers.
In 1983, she published a book based on her experiences, "Gorillas in the Mist," which became a bestseller and was turned into an Oscar-nominated film starring Sigourney Weaver. Tragically, Fossey was killed in her cabin in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda in December 1985. Although the case has never been solved, it is widely believed that she was killed by a poacher in response to her aggressive anti-poaching efforts.
Dian Fossey left behind an amazing legacy – both one of greater knowledge about these previously poorly understood animals and one of inspiration which has motivated many people to join the fight to save the critically endangered mountain gorillas. As her final diary entry read, "When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future,"