I take care of my 91 year old mom who has dementia.watching the elephants gives me shush inner peace there sounds go through me that make me a very good care giver to my mom.i really can't describe how they fill me with joy
Bless you Myra. I was my Mom's constant caregiver. I was blessed she didn't have dementia. I lost my oldest Son suddenly and Mom got very sick 3 months later. I literally moved home for 4 years to be her everything. I know God was carrying me because I don't remember the 1st year without my Son. I can only remember the deep pain. Please try to be good to yourself anyway you can. I love to watch live cams of eagles and such. The American Bald Eagle Association has several live cams you can watch. There is also a man that plays piano for the Elephants. I love to watch them swaying to the piano. I will be keeping you in my thoughts and prayers. You will never regret what you are doing. God Bless you!
It honestly brings tears to my eyes to see these amazing beings finally at peace and allowed to live the remainder of their time in this gorgeous place. ❤️💕❤️
That seems ridiculously close to a hurricane zone. What is that, 25-30 miles to the coast? We have seen Houston absolutely flooded and its further from the water.
These freed souls, walking unfettered, gives my heart peace & joy. To see that one elephant circling his/her trunk in the pond was so sweet: I am so happy for them! Thanks to all who contributed: you did a magnificent thing!
I hope the elephants will all be safe and happy there. How do they monitor them to care for them? It’s about time that these beautiful animals were set free from the inhuman treatment they’ve received over the years. Thank you everyone there for making this finally happen. There are many more to be rescued.
@Dazed & Confused Thank you for letting me know that. I feel better knowing it’s a nice place. I’ll have to check it out sometime when I visit my uncle. He has a place in Daytona.
Seeing these incredible beautiful Animals in nature were they shud have been always , it’s sooooo beautiful and wonderful God bless this beautiful place😌😊🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
It’s a beautiful thing.... to see these magnificent, intelligent and sensitive animals live in peace. Allowed to live the life they were meant - free. As it should be.
The Walters and all the staff at White Oak have done a wonderful thing by creating a natural habitat for these former circus elephants. I hope that it won’t be long before they can ship all of the elephants there.🐘💗
This is my home. I lived a few miles from here. I use to pass it everyday on my way to work to pick up trash on Fernandina Beach. You hear so many rumors at one time they said they were shutting it down. I guess they were just adding a golf course. Great to know it's still operational.
Thank you to everyone that made this possible, Everyone should be so proud, you all did an amazing job and these beautiful animals get to be free and enjoy life the way they are supposed too. 🥰😇❤️🙏
There is also a sanctuary for Elephants at a location in central Tennessee. They have been taking elephants from captivity, including from circuses for years now..... giving them a place to live in peace and allow them to heal. The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee (below): www.elephants.com/
Elephants are family oriented and watching the elephants form families in freedom means that the people behind this gave their hearts, their brains, and their muscle for the freedom of these intelligent and majestic elephants.
It is good to see any animal in a better environment, safe and free to roam. These are endangered and it is good that there are sanctuaries. Thank you to all concerned. I would be proud too. You have offered them a better life.
I love elephants ,I wonder what they were thinking when they were let out, I wonder if they thought this was real or not , they are so beautiful animals congratulations Florida community ,you have saved these animals lives ,or what time they have left, thank you 🙏
They were transported here from another smaller place. They might have been thinking on the road that they are going back to the circus. But now, if they are intelligent enough, they are probably thinking what is this crazy species that abused them for years and then decided to put them into this santuary.
My all time favorite animal!!🐘🤍🐘 ❤️🩹🐘 🤍🐘❤️🩹🐘🤍🐘❤️🩹🐘🤍🐘❤️🩹 I watched twice just to see the absolute joy & happiness in these magnificent creatures as they explore their new home!!
Nature and wild is where these majestic creatures belong to! They are beautiful. Sorry for their long lives of suffering under human exploitation deprived of natural family bonds.
The more I get to know people, the more I like animals. Except for this wonderful people that are helping this poor creatures after so much misery and suffering in their lives at the Circus. I hate the Circus !!!!
My favorite animal ever! This is such a wonderful story and hopefully a happy freedom for these magnificent babies. God Bless the people responsible for making this happen.
Exactly 🧐🧐 they should really consider their reintroduction, as well as horses, lions, camels and cheetahs, if they would add those animals into that habitat as well as some deer, pronghorn, elk and bison it would be a complete ecosystem
The more I get to know people, the more I like animals, with the exception of these people who are really caring and loving and working to free this beautiful and intelligent animals. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
So pleased that at last these majestic animals are being freed from the torcher of being in circuses etc well ✅ done to you all for setting them free👏👏👏👍
@@taliesincoleman6569 is correct, because money. As long as some dumbass is willing to pay a thousand bucks for powdered rhino horn to harden his pathetic little pencil, the problems will continue. I think poachers and trophy hunters should be executed.
This is amazing!! What a day! What a future!! I wonder is there a video of them being loaded up on tracks, their journey and their very first moments stepping in this sanctuary??....Love seeing those videos...new life, new beginnings....to see them just wondering around is just beautiful! THANK YOU will never be enough...
Elephants are such incredibly intelligent and caring animals - I love what they have done for them. I have only been to the circus once and I wanted to vomit when the elephants and a hippo "performed" for our entertainment....
It is really great what you have undertaken, it must be exported absolutely to give back the contact to the wild nature and the freedom recovered to these elephants. Moreover, in another video, a lady veterinarian or ethologist (I don't know), underlined the fact that from now on the beauty of these magnificent creatures must be recognized in their primary state only: the wild state and that it is necessary to educate the public to consider the animals as such. God bless you
These circus should have been shut down a long time ago it shows you how selfish humans can be I hope all these elephants have a long and happy life being here and the keepers are so lucky looking after these beautiful animals
Most circuses have been shut down for quite a while. Although I am not defending wild animals being used for entertainment, circuses were NOT all abusive to their animals. That would be quite contrary to their objective...you need healthy animals to perform to generate income. What changed was the perception of what confining and training wild animals did to their mental well being. Eventually the overwhelming evidence swayed the owners, times changed. If there are any small private circus ventures they are not going to expand and will be dismantled by negative publicity. What I wish people would turn their indignation to is the woefully out if step big game hunting for trophy kills. It is an elitist rich white mans pasttime that is literally past its time. Selling the hunting rights to kill endangered elephants ( & other animals) is abhorrent. The past president relaxed laws making trophy killing easy, he has 2 sons who are avid killers and are well known for promoting the killing under the guise of conservation. Look up their pictures holding their dead kills as trophies....warning: they are graphic and sickening. Let's hear the indignation for that....not against defunct circuses. Fight to Keep the animals in the wild where they belong.
How are they doing after Ian? How is a safety plan implemented for such a big herd when deadly extreme conditions arise ? Do they have accesible sturdy safe high ground barns.
Thank-you so much for this- for all your hard work- thanks for sharing it and thank God these amazing beings are being treated like they should be- the human race is becoming human again- Yes!
These caretakers need to see the Global Sanctuary for Elephants on Fb, founded by The Elephant Sanctuary's founders, Scot and Kat Blais 20+ years ago. It will help them understand how elephants develop relationships with new found freedom. The sadness still shows in the eyes of these abused Ringling elephants. That will change when the eles are able to make their own choices - who to be friends with, where to go, what to eat and being a pond blob.
Yes, I follow the Global Sanctuary on RU-vid, as well. It would be wonderful if White Oak could routinely post! To me, these elephants look healthier than the ones in Brazil. I'm so happy to see this here in the states in Florida!
@@lynnmccoysloan7705 These elephants are much younger than the ones at Elephant Sanctuary Brazil. The South American rescue elephants were often available for “rescue” because they had health issues. I’m happy to see ALL captive elephants get a shot at sanctuary. It’s a huge expensive undertaking but these intelligent, social creatures who were enslaved by humans deserve to return to some semblance of autonomy and herd life. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best we can do right now.
@@epsilon8939 as ll 7 of them ? And where is that facility? Does Ken or Bonnie keep any of then. They will haVe she facilities , oh and a more then a few with active trunk washes and active +TB
Freedom! Safe! Love it. Now lets go to Africa and bring more over here to be safe. I know these were circus elephants, but this is a huge area. Need more. Elephants are my favorite animal. Big thanks to all those people who helped with this.❤
It's hard to believe that there are people on this planet that kill these wonderful animals just for their tusks. If we don't get our act together we will only succeed in destroying ourselves and if we do we will deserve it.
The woman made the comment they are doing what they choose to do, exactly because they are doing what nature intended them to do and just be elephant 🐘
It’s interesting how so many people can shed a tear watching these kinds of videos but still have no understanding about becoming vegan (probably, even the elephants’ care takers speaking in this video).
I’m curious...about this situation...I live here in Florida...those elephants obviously are not native to us....the trees and grasses they will be foraging on are not native to the if their Asian elephants....so how does it affect their health here in Florida?
Good work to free these Asian elephants from slavery. Their natural habitat is luscious green tropical foliage, banana trees and fruit. What they get here is not ideal, as a result their condition is very different from those enjoying their natural habitat, but hopefully the Florida herds will receive the additional supplements to improve their look. I am sure they are in touch with Elephant Nature Park (ENP), Lek Chailert, world expert on Asian elephant rehabilitation, for guidance and advice. 💖🐘🐘💖
Domesticated elephants are as harmless as our loyal dogs may be more . They would never hurt the being they trust even by accident inspite of that heavy size and lack of reflexivity
I have a ??? This looks like it right in the middle of the everglades where all the pythons are taking over--- will there be a problems encountered on this land??🐍🐍🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘, this is a cool place for these giants,, I hope they have a good rest of their life!!🙏🙏👏🤗
Have you ever see a giant croc attack a elephant? NO, NO YOU HAVENT! Thats bcuz everything, even dumb reptiles knows better than to mess with these monsters
@@dorishanoum3811 no i was just saying that there are no animals that will attack an elephant the only animal ive ever known to hurt an ele is a human or another elephant
@@1974lionsfan well one time I was watching N' GEO WILD & it showed an elegant get bit by a really venomous snake at its foot, & it did die, it took awhile as the documentary followed the elephant,, but I cant recall what kind of snake it was-- but thanks for the info👍🐘
One of the issues I read about is whether or not they will be breeding and have their offspring torn from them and sold to zoos. I'm not totally sold on this place just yet unless there is clarity about that.
@@divaah4406 Artificial insemination is often used to impregnate females. The fact that these elephants are all females means nothing. Again, I'm hoping for the best but still skeptical.
@@cak4539 Thanks for your information and I appreciate your skeptic position, but I am an optimist and the report presented on this particular sanctuary makes me feel even more optimistic.
@@cak4539 So how long do you think it will be, before we hear of an elephant being attacked by an alligator? Considering this is Florida, the land looks awfully like “gatorville”.
