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Drone shot of Female African elephant Pupy explores her habitat

A Look at Pupy From Above

May 19, 2025

It’s sometimes hard to picture the size of the different habitats without a view from above. We’ve been able to share some drone footage of the female Asian habitat, but now we’re able to let you see what the sanctuary looks like to Pupy in the female African habitat. This…...

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Drone View of the Fire Damage

October 14, 2020

Scott, Kat, and our veterinarian Trish bring everyone along on Wall-E’s (our drone) first flight after the devasting wildfire raced through our property late last week. (If you missed it, details are here → ). There is a stark difference between what was protected and what burned. Scott gives a…...

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Asian habitat

This Morning at Elephant Sanctuary Brazil

May 27, 2020

We filmed this footage this morning with our drone, named Wall-E. We don’t use Wall-E every day, but when we do want an unobtrusive check-in with the girls, we are grateful to have it. There are a few areas (and elephants!) identified with captions in the video. We wanted to…...

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The new sanctuary drone

Checking In on Lady With Wall-E (our drone)

January 3, 2020

Today, we did our first live feed with our drone, Wall-E. Wall-E has recently been repaired and is back to flying high. Having a drone is very helpful in such a large space – including for keeping tabs on the elephants. Today, Lady had access to Yard 4 for the…...

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Drone view of Maia and Guida in the pond

Drone View of the Female Asian Habitat

February 23, 2019

  Most swimming photos and videos are of the girls in the ‘pond in 4’, pond Beleza Na Vida. We do have a second manmade pond in the female Asian habitat, and this is it. There isn’t usually video to share because on the left is a giant dirt pile…...

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Maia

Maia From the Drone

February 13, 2019

  This is a short video we took with the drone during one of our ‘check-ins’ to see where the girls are and how they are doing. Maia is in the front, Guida is at the back, by the fence. The area they are in is the Southeast corner of…...

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