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Carole Baskin being interviewed by Wink news

Carole Baskin speaks fluently about ending private ownership of tigers and cub handling

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In this interview of Carole Baskin by a presenter at WINK news, she speaks eloquently and fluently about her passion, which is to phase out private ownership of tigers in the USA and to end cub handling. She wants to achieve this through her Big Cat Public Safety Act (BCPSA). She has campaigned tirelessly for …

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Alexander Feldman. The zoo's owner

Kharkiv Zoo’s big cats and bears will be euthanised before Russian shelling gets them

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NEWS AND COMMENT – KHARKIV, UKRAINE: The zookeepers at Kharkiv Zoo are making plans to euthanize the big cats and bears in case Russian shelling allows them to escape into what’s left of the city. And I presume to save them from being shelled to death by the Russians. Far better to euthanize these big …

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Tiger roaming around West Houston having escaped someone's home where they were a pet

Pet tiger wanders around West Huston, Texas and residents reach for their guns. Great picture.

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HOUSTON, TEXAS USA – NEWS AND VIEWS: It appears that a Houston resident kept a tiger as a pet and the tiger escaped leading to sightings of it wandering around the suburbs of Houston looking in, my opinion, nervous and not aggressive as described by some. The video shows the big cat on a resident’s …

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"Doc" Antle

With Doc Antle finished, Carole Baskin can now push on with her Big Cat Public Safety Act

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It is end of days for the big four “Tiger Kings” of America. One of these prominent big cat exploiters was (his days are numbered) the exotically named Bhagavan Doc Antle. He has been indicted on various animal cruelty charges and he will, hopefully, follow the path of his associates and end up out of …

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Stark

Roadside zoo “Wildlife in Need” – further court injunction stopping big cat abuse

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Tim Stark owns a controversial Indiana roadside zoo called “Wildlife in Need” (an ironic name as the cats in it are in desparate need of removal from the place). He is associated with Jo Exotic who is currently in prison serving a life sentence for conspiracy to murder Carole Baskin. The news out today is …

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Dean Schneider and lion

Social media star punches lion cub prompting animal welfare investigation

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NEWS/VIEWS – SOUTH AFRICA – PRIVATE ZOO: Dean Schneider is being investigated for alleged animal cruelty after being filmed punching one of his lion cubs. This video was or still is on his Instagram page but I can’t find it. It may have been removed because of the controversy surrounding it. However, you can see …

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Joe Exotic and Theroux

Joe Exotic is a likeable man who bred tigers to create money-spinning cubs for photoshoots

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On the first day of their lives, Joe Exotic took cubs from their mothers that he had deliberately bred to exploit them. When the cubs grew up they were surplus to requirements and parked at the back of his wildlife park. Joe Exotic is pleased that he has become famous (infamous actually) because of the …

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Zoos should be phased out

Zoos should become extinct because they fail to educate and preserve

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I am very happy that a millionaire conservationist who inherited a zoo from his parents has said that small zoos should be closed within ten years and the larger ones in 20-30 years. He’s going to convert his zoo to a rescue centre eventually. The reasons he provides are cogent. In fact when you honestly …

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Oleg Zubkov with one of his many lions

Crimean private zookeeper said he will shoot his own bears and the lions and tigers will be next

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Oleg Zubkov is the owner of a safari park and zoo in CrimeaA. It appears to be a private zoo on a gargantuan scale. A scale at which Oleg Zubkov is incapable of coping because, for example, he says that he needs 3,500 tonnes of food a day for his animals. The park covers 30 …

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Javon Stacks and lynx

Javon Stacks owner of traveling zoo wanted on animal cruelty charges

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Javon Stacks likes to think of himself as an entrepreneur, exotic zoo owner, primatologist and wildlife educator but the authorities and Romulus law enforcement say that he is not looking after his animals properly. They’re looking for him and they have posted a photo of Stacks on social media over the weekend asking for the …

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