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Big Cat Rescue claims that permit systems are not effective at ensuring animal welfare and campaigns for a total ban of private ownership of big cats regardless of keeping conditions. [30] The center is part of the International Tiger Coalition , which is dedicated to stopping the trade of tiger parts.
Big Cat Rescue, Tampa; Big Cat Habitat Gulf Coast Sanctuary, Sarasota; Blake’s Exotic Animal Ranch, Southwest Ranches; Boyett’s Grove & Citrus Attraction, Brooksville; Brevard Zoo, Melbourne; Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Tampa; Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, Jupiter; Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium, Fort Myers
The couple founded Wildlife on Easy Street, an animal sanctuary near Tampa for big cats, in 1992. Don and Carole Lewis never bred lion or tiger cubs but did breed 3 leopards and some other small cats before realizing the harm it was doing the animals and they stopped all breeding by 1997.
ZooTampa at Lowry Park (formerly known as Lowry Park Zoo or Lowry Park Zoological Garden) is a 63-acre (25 ha) nonprofit zoo located in Tampa, Florida.In 2009, Lowry Park Zoo was voted the #1 Family Friendly Zoo in the US by Parents Magazine, [3] and is recognized by the State of Florida as the center for Florida wildlife conservation and biodiversity (HB 457).
Threatened by habitat loss, entanglements in fishing gear and crab traps, or by being asphyxiated or crushed by canal locks and flood gates, the most common cause for manatee deaths is being struck by boats, which caused one quarter of all deaths recorded since 1974. In 2015, the statewide population was estimated at 6,063. [230]
The new habitat is also home to two species that have never before been on display at the Fort Worth Zoo. ‘A beautiful new home’: Big cats return to Fort Worth Zoo as new habitat opens to ...
The EFRC is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization and the second-largest big cat rescue in the United States, spanning over 200 acres (0.81 km 2). [1] [2] Abused, disabled, and otherwise homeless wild cats such as Lions, tigers, leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, Canada lynx, ocelots, Geoffroy's cat, and an Asian leopard cat have taken refuge in this organization.
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