
After 18 hours, Valentina emerged from her coma and slowly started to eat. Here, she enjoys some milk and termites.
An orphaned giraffe nuzzles a caregiver at Sarara Camp in northern Kenya. Samburu cattle herders found the abandoned calf and alerted Sarara—known for raising orphaned mammals and returning them to their habitat. The young giraffe now lives with a wild herd.
From "A bold plan to save Africa’s shrinking giraffe herds," September 2019.
This armadillo was rescued from the fire zones around Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and treated in a hotel-turned-animal-hospital in the small community of Aguas Calientes. Hotel owner José Sierra tries to calm the animal ahead of his release back to the wild.
From "Inside the efforts to help animals hurt by the Amazon fires," September 2019.