Animals living in deplorable conditions were rescued, received the necessary medical treatment, rehabilitated and then released back into their natural habitat or placed in animal sanctuaries.
Animals are members of God’s creation. They were placed on Earth by the same God who created man and also hung the sun, moon and stars in place. As such, they deserve love, care, kindness and respect.
A clip posted on YouTube shows some of the best, but also some of the worst behavior of human beings. The video shows people rescuing animals that had been mistreated and endured some horrendous conditions. After rescuing the animals, different groups of people helped to nurse them back to health and later released them into the wild.
The clip begins in 2016 with the rescue of two orangutans. The video mentions the two animals were “living in deplorable conditions.” So, over the course of five years, the two orangutans were rehabilitated in what is called “forest school.”
They were then released back into the Asian forest.
The next story the clip mentions is that of Martha, a 17-year-old brown bear. The bear, up until it was rescued, had spent its entire 17-year existence in captivity. In addition to being kept in small, confined spaces, the bear was also not “fed well.”
Martha, after her rescue, was taken to a veterinarian, where the animal was thoroughly examined. The bear was transported to an animal sanctuary where other bears were currently residing.
The clip ends with the story of a nearly 30-year-old chimpanzee, Vanilla. Vanilla had spent its entire life locked up in a testing lab. But in June 2023, the animal finally took its first steps outside.
The look on the animal’s face, as it gazes up into the sky and gets its first glance at the sun, is moving and priceless.
Genesis 1:21 “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
