Acts of kindness towards animals

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by ravenlocke (here)
give a **** about nature

last saturday morning off the coast of rakiura in southern new zealand, fishers spotted a southern right whale tangled in a fishing net.

Zac penman, the country's expert in large-whale disentanglement, was at a surfing competition 800km away. He started planning the rescue from the road.

By monday, the team located the whale and caught up to it by boat on tuesday afternoon. They pulled themselves slowly up the rope toward the whale, which let out a single trumpet-blow that penman said he could feel in his bones.

It took 45 minutes to cut the whale free. It swam away into the sunset. The team went back to rakiura for a well-dserved beer.

Southern right whales were hunted nearly to extinction in the 19th century. Of the new zealand population, there are now between 1,000 and 5,000 individuals.

They are sacred to ngāi tahu, the south island's largest māori iwi. Every animal in the population matters to the recovery.

The whale survived because fishers reported the sighting quickly. Most whale entanglements end the other way.

Photos by ros cole.

https://x.com/givea****nature/status...51928959168958

good ****!

[Ravenlocke]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
An elephant in Sri Lanka that was swept out to sea, was spotted 5 miles from shore and rescued.


Crazy Vibes
@CrazyVibes_1
Far out at sea, five miles from shore, sailors spotted an elephant struggling in the waves. The exhausted giant had been swept away while crossing a lagoon, caught in the pull of the tide, too far from land to swim back. Every breath was a struggle, every movement a fight for survival. Onlookers could only watch, their hearts heavy as the enormous animal battled against the relentless sea.

The Sri Lankan navy responded immediately, launching an urgent rescue operation. Divers plunged into the water, navigating strong currents and slippery waves, carefully approaching the giant with ropes in hand. The elephant was terrified but resilient, refusing to surrender as it twisted and pushed against the ropes. The rescuers moved slowly, understanding that any sudden movement could injure the elephant or themselves. Hours passed with painstaking effort — twelve grueling hours of patience, precision, and bravery.

Finally, as dusk approached, the elephant’s feet touched the sandy shore. Exhausted but alive, it paused for a moment, as if taking in the security of solid ground after the long ordeal. With one last powerful push, it rose, trunk raised high, nostrils flaring, and disappeared into the forest. The rescuers watched in awe, realizing they had witnessed not only the survival of a magnificent creature but also the triumph of human courage and compassion.

That day, a lost soul was brought safely home through teamwork, determination, and empathy. The story spread quickly, reminding the world that acts of courage, patience, and care can save lives, even in the most extreme conditions. It was a reminder that every life matters — and that sometimes, the smallest gestures of bravery can have the greatest impact.

https://x.com/CrazyVibes_1/status/2062808345745162505

It turns out the elephant was 10 miles away from shore.


https://x.com/InsideEdition/status/886782602660765696

Here is a video clip of the navy rescue operation.

https://x.com/trtworld/status/885778611260846081

https://x.com/ABCWorldNews/status/885680261152755712

[Johnnycomelately]

Good news, for both Polar Bears and their neighbouring humans.

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/be...y-polar-bears/


‘Bear-dar’ aims to give Arctic communities a heads-up on nearby polar bears

Abhishyant Kidangoor
July 15, 2026

▪️ An early-warning system, aided by radar and AI, aims to help mitigate human-polar bear encounters in the Arctic.

▪️ Bear-dar scans the landscape for polar bears and alerts people if a bear is spotted approaching human settlements.

▪️ In May, the system detected a polar bear family and helped people at a weather station guide them back onto sea ice.


As sea ice rapidly melts due to global warming, polar bears are losing their habitats; as a result, they’re increasingly foraging for food on land, putting them in growing contact with humans.

How do you spot polar bears in the vast, and often dark, wilderness of the Arctic?

Enter Bear-dar.

This AI-driven radar system scans the landscape to spot approaching polar bears. The technology was developed by the nonprofit Polar Bears International in collaboration with U.S.-based security firm Spotter Global in a bid to mitigate encounters between the animals and people.

“We wanted to add another tool to the polar bear safety toolbox,” Alysa McCall, director of science at Polar Bears International, told Mongabay in a video interview. “With an early-warning detection system, there’s less chance of a bear getting killed because it surprised somebody.”

Climate change is the biggest threat to the survival and existence of polar bears (Ursus maritimus). As sea ice melts in the Arctic, these threatened species are rapidly losing their habitats. As a result, they move on to land in search of food, where they risk coming into close contact with humans.

With Bear-dar, scientists and conservationists say they hope to help manage such encounters and conflicts.

The early-warning system uses radars and cameras that keep a watch on the landscape, looking out for motion in its field of vision. The radar panels, each about the size of an iPad, look at a distance ranging from a few hundred meters to 1.2 kilometers (0.75 miles). The AI algorithm in the radars was trained to detect polar bears from zoo-held animals at Assiniboine Conservancy Park in the Canadian city of Winnipeg.

“There’s not a ton of polar bear footage out there and so we weren’t able to train them well enough,” McCall said. “So we took it to a zoo where it just watched polar bears all day, and it got a good sense of it.”


The radars are paired with cameras that can move and swing along with them and zoom in on and capture any detections. If the system spots a bear approaching, it sends out an alert, allowing people to check the camera footage to confirm and corroborate the presence of polar bears.

The system has already seen tangible results on the ground.

In mid-2025, Bear-dar was deployed at the Environment and Climate Change Canada weather station in the Arctic town of Eureka. In May this year, the system made its first detection of a polar bear family, comprising a mother and two cubs, moving toward the weather station. On spotting the animals, staff members at the station guided them back to the sea ice. They also continued to monitor the bears’ location using the camera system.


“They wouldn’t have been able to see those bears just standing outside and looking around,” McCall said. “The early-warning system gave them a lot of time to make a plan, and that’s what we envisioned this being used for.”

While challenges abound when it comes to the deployment of the technology in such harsh terrain, McCall said the team is planning to further improvise the technology to make it more accessible to communities in the Arctic. The team also wants to develop a system where it sends alerts or a text message to stakeholders when a polar bear is spotted.

“We want this to be accessible and affordable,” McCall said. “If we could, down the road, make this an option for people who are increasingly living with polar bears, that would be wonderful.”


Banner image: Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska. Image by Hans-Jurgen Mager via Unsplash (Public domain).

Abhishyant Kidangoor is a staff writer at Mongabay. Find him on 𝕏 @AbhishyantPK.

[Ravenlocke]

dominic dyer

Emergency responders battling Spain's devastating wildfires have also been rescuing and caring for animals caught in the path of the flames.

The fires have forced 116,000 people from their homes this week, with one person killed in a wildfire near Valencia.
https://x.com/VirginMediaNews/status...133310/video/1

https://x.com/domdyer70/status/2081487465618235749

[Ravenlocke]

Guardia Civil

Translated from Spanish
Right now, we have to handle everything: public safety, traffic, evacuations… and/or hydrating the animals that couldn't be evacuated.

The Mountain Groups of the Civil Guard have been hydrating the animals located at the Vegan Sanctuary in Cadalso de los Vidrios. They are doing well 👍🏻

We continue working in the area. It is essential to keep following the instructions to avoid personal losses. Thank you for your understanding 🙏🏼

https://x.com/guardiacivil/status/2081348789495869802

Guardia Civil

Translated from Spanish
🚨 IN FIRES, EVERY LIFE COUNTS. 🐾🔥
In the face of a forest fire, our absolute priority is to protect people, but we always seek time and heart to assist animals:
🐕 Pets
🐎 Livestock
🦊 Wildlife

#IncendiosForestales #IFSierraOeste #IFSierraGredos


https://x.com/guardiacivil/status/2081338947074937196

[Ravenlocke]

GDams

Jul 25
Translated from French
🔥 🇪🇸It… it hits me right in the gut.
Firefighters who spend the day battling the flames, exhausted, burned out… and who come across this deer stuck, completely spent.
They stop.
They give it water.
They pet it.
They save it.
No speeches.
No political cameras.
Just men who respect life.

That's what it looks like—real heroes.
Those guys are worth a thousand times more than all the ministers put together.
Respect.
❤️🇫🇷
Like if your eyes are stinging.
RT to spread it around

https://x.com/Gdams70/status/2081051398469296423

[Ravenlocke]

Fondation Brigitte Bardot

Translated from French
🔴 🔥 FIRES IN GIRONDE: our teams on the front lines

The Brigitte Bardot Foundation has mobilized a team to assist animals in distress, trapped by the fires in Gironde.

40 dogs have already been placed in safety. Our teams have also taken in around thirty cats, temporarily housing them in Montpon under carefully arranged conditions. An additional operation is still being organized today to retrieve a cat that a resident was unable to collect herself.

👉 Wherever animals are in danger or distress, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation will not back down from saving them.

https://x.com/FBB_Officiel/status/2081421856624595128

[Ravenlocke]

ABC.es

Translated from Spanish
A riding center in Biscarrosse, France, releases its horses so they can flee from the fire

https://x.com/abc_es/status/2081300009136357887

[Ravenlocke]

Àrees de Gossos Badalona

Translated from Spanish
🚨 ANIMAL RESCUE 🚨
The RASE ANIMAL RESCUE team has safely rescued 4 greyhounds trapped in the fire zone of #LaVallDUixó
#Castellón.
Many forgotten animals are still being found, left to their fate.
#todavidaimporta
#rescateanimales #animalesenapuros

https://x.com/areagossosbdn/status/2081436970304082340

[Ravenlocke]

Àrees de Gossos Badalona

Translated from Spanish
🆘🆘 URGENT HELP 🆘🆘
The Vegan Sanctuary of #CadalsoDelosVidrios has opened the enclosure so that the animals can get out and save themselves from the fire
A lot of help will be needed to be able to recover them 🚨
MAXIMUM DISSEMINATION🙏
📣📣📣
#RESCATEANIMALES
#ANIMALESENAPUROS
#difundir

https://x.com/areagossosbdn/status/2081408362554536117

[onawah]

A case of animal abuse (which is legal and very common in China) has gone viral internationally, and the Chinese Communist Party is trying desperately to cover it up.
It all started with a friendly street dog named Wang Wang and her puppies, and the group of boys who tortured them horrifically, killed them, and filmed it.
(And as one commenter noted, serial killers commonly start with torturing and killing animals.)
But internationally, animal lovers who saw that horrific video, made sure that it went viral.
Starting at 57 minutes into the video

Posted by onawah (here)
This One Dog is About to Topple the Chinese Government - We’re Not Kidding - Episode #325
The China Show
392K subscribers
July 24, 2026 The China Show

(They aren't kidding but they are exaggerating somewhat; the real worst nightmare (3 Gorges Dam failure) hasn't happened yet.
...But this is bad enough, for the CCP at least...)

"China's worst nightmare just happened."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rt1nXWsJNqc

[Ewan]

Posted by onawah (here)
A case of animal abuse (which is legal and very common in China) has gone viral internationally, and the Chinese Communist Party is trying desperately to cover it up.

Did you happen to miss the title of this thread?

ACTS OF KINDNESS

You have chosen to post the exact opposite in your ongoing relentless anti-Chinese crusade.

(If you intend responding to my criticism please do so via PM rather than subjecting the good folk at PA to a public disagreement. Thanks).

As an aside - you have so many valuable contributions I really do wish you would focus on them.

[onawah]

I didn't miss anything, but it appears that you did Ewan.
It seems clear that you haven't watched the video which explains in detail that there are now many compassionate people using various venues globally to report on the kind of animal abuse occurring regularly in China, in an attempt to force the CCP to create laws that forbid animal abuse.
Of which there are none at present.
I continue to post information here about the dystopian conditions in China, thanks to the CCP, because their propaganda has been successfully pulling the wool over so many people's eyes (including members of this forum), and the damage the CCP is doing is not at all limited to the borders of their country, but is drastically infecting the whole world.
Fortunately, there are plenty of non-members who are aware, and are paying attention, but it's very unfortunate that a conspiracy theory venue like Avalon is lagging in this respect.
There is not much member response to my posts about China generally, but imho in time it will become abundantly clear what is propaganda and what isn't when it comes to the CCP's villany.
Similarly, I was aware of the corruption surrounding vaccines long before the conspiracy theory community was, and I am not daunted this time either by the lack of awareness, though it does get wearisome.