REAL-LIFE WILDLIFE RESCUES!
Discover how people across the world have saved animals in peril using special equipment and creative thinking!
ELEPHANT IN A WELL!
Villagers in Kerala, India, were awoken by trumpeting one morning in 2017, and discovered a baby elephant trapped in a well. A rescue team used a digger to free him and soon the elephant was able to rejoin his herd, which was waiting nervously nearby. Before disappearing into the forest, the mum raised her trunk to rescuers as if to say thank you!
SET 60302 — WILDLIFE RESCUE OPERATION
CROCODILE PAL
In 1989, a Costa Rican fisherman named Chito nursed a 5m-long crocodile back to health after fi nding it injured on a riverbank. He named it Pocho. Chito tried to release the croc back into the wild, but Pocho followed him home! The two remained close for the next 20 years – Pocho would even let Chito put his head in his mouth. Yikes!
SUCKED-UP SNAKE!
Over 170 species of snake live in Australia and they often slither into people’s houses. Snake catcher Stuart McKenzie was called to a home in Queensland, Australia, because of a very strange situation – a highly venomous red-bellied black snake had been sucked up into a vacuum cleaner! Luckily, the serpent was uninjured, and Stuart managed to carefully remove it before releasing it back into the wild. Ressssult!
SET 60301 — WILDLIFE RESCUE OFF-ROADER
LUCKY LION!
When rangers in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, found Naturinda the lion caught in a painful wire snare trap, they treated her wounds and sent her on her way. But two weeks later, they discovered Naturinda up a tree looking very weak. The lion urgently needed more help, so the rangers shot her with an anaesthetic dart and placed a mattress below to cushion her fall from the branches. After giving her more medical care and a tasty antelope to feed on, Naturinda eventually made a full recovery.
SET 60307 — WILDLIFE RESCUE CAMP
ESCAPE FROM THE FIRE!
A troop of monkeys became trapped in treetops above India’s Tungabhadra River when heavy rains flooded the region last year. The fi re department tried to rescue them using lifeboats, but the panicked monkeys kept running away. So the clever rescuers constructed a rope bridge secured with boulders. The operation took four days but eventually all 55 monkeys clambered to safety!
SET 60300 — WILDLIFE RESCUE ATV
RESCUE GEAR
Let’s talk a look at some of the specialist equipment rescuers might use to help save animals in need!
— Helicopters can airlift heavy animals away for treatment or help rehome them in more suitable areas.
— Experts often use hooks to handle dangerous snakes. This helps to keep their venomous fangs away from the handler.
— Winches can help pull off-road vehicles out of tricky terrain, like bogs and ditches.
— Injured animals can be given immediate medical care in an animal ambulance.
— In Britain during 2019, 186 animals were rescued from the water by the Royal National Lifeboat Association.
— Caterpillar tread helps vehicles grip the ground when moving heavy objects like boulders
— After disasters like hurricanes, drones can help search the debris for trapped animals.
WIN LEGO® CITY WILDLIFE SETS
We’ve got five bundles up for grabs, each containing all the sets in the LEGO CITY WILDLIFE RESCUE RANGE.
Click here to find out how to enter.
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Anthony Thomas Stellato
Im 5 years old and I love legos
Tillie
#save the animals
I LOVE LEGO!
Maxime
i love lego city toys sets
jbo
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ellie.g
this is so cool . hope i get this for my b-day or xmas it is so cool
lego lover 45
i want those
snowball
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Natgeo fan
They never told me who won !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pangolin32
Lego!!! And cool animal rescues
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Elizabeth
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pennimills
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henry
i can't wait to get the prize
Jimmynewtron
I'm so exited for this I have a jungle set to go with these sets
Derek Dodds
Cool love it
Heidi
Cool
Anantthenaturlist
Cant Wait to see who won
Leo the Lion
Those animals are lucky that the animal rescue team saved them. I'm surprised about that crocodile!
Tiger’s paws 829
Amazing let’s take action
Anantthenaturlist
Cool I love love love love love Legos
RheaSelu
So exited! Looks SOOO cool!!
natrulist#steve backshall
this lookes mazing
Olivia
I love Lego!
martha
CAN'T WAIT
izengo
I legos and natural habitats, so happy but no money
Aubrey
Awesome!!!
Ben Harrington
A man called Douglas Thron has a high tech drone with a thermal camera which he uses to find injured, abandoned and homeless animals after natural disasters and hopes one day to make his own animal ranch so people can adopt the abandoned pets as well as training others to be able to do his job.
Isabel
I am sooo excited I can't wait
MEGALADON
Ftheanimallover
I love animals and lego this the perfect competiton for me!
Ftheanimallover
I love animals.When I'm allowed to watch TV I always watch lego episodes or animal shows!
It's cool but we need to get that animals are treated bad and are starving out many people are alone change please. who is with me
Benjie Lightoller
I love LEGO!You can build anything from it!I love the jungle
Hugo
I really like the. Monkeys in this bundle (I ONLY CARE ABOUT THE MONKEYS)
Hugo
Hugo
jaeden diaz gonzalez
I love tigers Wow
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abadi
cool
zoe
I want all the lego please
daire
so ready for the comp oh and poor animals.
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Hello
This is so cool, me and my siblings entered the competition, fingers crossed….
I love tigers
Wow
Amy.meerkat
It was great to hear about these wildlife rescues
Lorcan
interesting
Dylan
Tj
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FUN
Derek Dodds
Kids would love this
Boop
I love animals and I’d really like my own puppy!
Lion girl
National geographic rules!
Redbug2009
i love the lego
DJ
harry and scarlet
we did the composition it looks so cool and epic
davud
cool i like it
None of your business
Nice
sam
Tobi Ashley
I love wild life, I want to be an explore and protector when I’m older
dorukyildiz
cool
Mando123
I love Lego cant wait this is awesome good luck everybody!
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Nathansummers
I am so looking forward to it!
Katrina montgomery
My daughters would love this
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I want
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Save Our World
Dania
I really love LEGO so it is cool!
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mason
I love animal's
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Jenny
How do you enter this competition Lego city wildlife. The question was what type of animal is a scorpion and I said Arachnid
Alana
So interesting!
AJ
super cool
Enzo
These Lego sets look really good fun! I saved a little bird that had fallen out of a tree once!
alexis dawn daigler
i love lego city
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