sanctuary life

An Afternoon With Our Hoofed Friends

We’d like to introduce our newer followers, and reintroduce our longtime supporters, to a few of our non-elephant friends at sanctuary. There is a diverse group of animals whom we have adopted or who have adopted us over the years, and these are just four of them. Milo the lamb…...

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Happy International Friendship Day!

  Today is International Friendship Day and we want to celebrate the ever-evolving relationships of the elephants here at sanctuary. Friendships are complex. They can be deep and lifelong or fleeting and seasonal. The same can be said about the relationships among the elephants at sanctuary. For instance, Maia and…...

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A Peaceful Moment At Sanctuary

This video shares some of the peace that comes with sanctuary. Here, Rana and Maia are taking advantage of one of the most important things that a sanctuary life offers: autonomy. On this day, both used their freedom to just peacefully exist, without interference from humans. We wish you all…...

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Sara’s Diary: My Week At Sanctuary

Elephant Sanctuary Brazil never lets you forget you’re at sanctuary – from the smallest details to the largest moments. The roosters sound the alarm around 4:30 in the morning and they call back and forth to one another until you are wide awake. All of the bird songs are unfamiliar…...

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The Sanctuary Night Sky

Filmmaker, photographer, and Santuario Equidad employee Fede Sordo joined our team on Pocha and Guillermina’s transport from Mendoza to Brazil, capturing some of the images and videos we’ve shown you over the past few weeks. A couple of nights before his return home, he captured this image of the night…...

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Sprucing Up the Crates With Our New Backhoe

After nearly a year in Mendoza, our transport crates need a little love before they can be used again. Though it was needed in the case of Pocha and Guillermina, the crates aren’t made for daily use, for such a long time period. The repairs and updates must be made…...

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