Don Lichterman

The last time most people following the Wildlife Aid Foundation’s work heard about these fox cubs, they were tiny. Newborn-fragile, eyes barely open, discovered huddled beneath a garden shed after their mother had died — a litter of orphaned cubs who had no way of surviving without immediate human intervention and no way of knowing […]

The world of big cat rescue rarely offers moments of uncomplicated joy. Most of the stories that animal welfare organizations follow across years of field work, legal battles, and diplomatic negotiations are defined by what was taken from these animals before they arrived at safety — by the decades of confinement, the trauma of isolation,