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standards for a big cat sanctuary. Guests must be escorted around the sanctuary by a staff member and are kept at least three feet away from the animal enclosures. Employees or trained volunteers may briefly enter lower level enclosures housing animals like caracals for cleaning and maintenance, but
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Carolina Tiger Rescue has a robust educational program and offers educational tours, school field trips, homeschool programs, preschool storytime, group presentations, and internships. One of
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was a blind tiger who arrived at
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and other wild animals. Over 20,000 visitors come to the sanctuary each year for guided tours, field trips, summer camps, volunteering and corporate work groups. Their mission is saving and protecting wild cats in captivity and in the wild. They work toward a day when wild cats are living in their
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As the environmental community began to appreciate the plight of these lesser-known carnivores, they began to create species survival plans – organized plans for the survival of the species, including a national genetic registry to monitor numbers and breeding. In response, Carnivore
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was rescued in May 2013, when she was confiscated by the authorities from a family in South
Carolina who had kept her as a pet. Aria was about 10 years old and near death. Although she was eating, she had lost weight very rapidly. When she arrived at Carolina Tiger Rescue, she weighed under 200
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Carolina Tiger engages in a variety of partnerships with the academia/research, environmental, and sanctuary and zoo communities, as well as the corporate world. For almost two decades, Carolina Tiger has provided access to our tigers’ footprints to collect baseline data for the
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Carolina legislature considered an unsuccessful bill in 2004 which would make it illegal for individuals and over thirty other nonprofit zoological entities to own many of the animals housed at the Carolina Tiger Rescue. Carolina Tiger Rescue supported this bill.
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The
Carnivore Evolutionary Research Institute was incorporated in 1981, and changed its name to Carnivore Preservation Trust (CPT). CPT became well known for its success in breeding certain species, particularly servals, ocelots, and binturongs.
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and county officials, saying that the facility was unsafe because of vegetation on cages, rusting feed bins, and inadequate, rusting fencing. CPT officials refuted those claims.
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