This documentary looks beneath the hides and into the hearts and thinking of a unique wilderness family - a herd of trained elephants and the small, dedicated band of people who share their lives in one of Africa's last great strongholds of unspoiled nature. All the elephants are orphans, survivors of overcrowded African reserves or animals that endured decades of lonely exile in zoos and circuses on other continents before one man's vision transported them here. Wildlife biologist Randall Jay Moore first came to know trained African circus elephants thirty years ago near his home in Oregon. He successfully shipped a pair back to Africa and spent a year teaching them how to live on their own in the wild. Since then he has rescued African elephants from confinement all over the world and returned them to their native soil. Elephant Rescue tells a moving and important story more poignant than fiction.

Sunday, 7/8 from 7-8 p.m. ET

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