Take Action Now to End the Exploitation of Big Cats in Circus Acts Hello, Big Cat Rescuers! 🐾 We’ve come a long way in our fight for the freedom and dignity of big cats, but the struggle is far from over. Today, we focus on an the below urgent issues that continue to tarnish our…
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2022 Big Cat Bans Enacted 12/20/2022. WASHINGTON DC – President Biden signed the Big Cat Public Safety Act into law! Public contact with big cat cubs must cease immediately and private owners will have 180 days to register their cats with the US Fish & Wildlife Service. After today they may keep the cats they…
What’s the Difference Between the AZA & ZAA? More than can be included in this article, but here are two of the differences that are most important to saving big cats. Origins of AZA vs ZAA The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) was founded in 1924. The Zoological Association of America (ZAA) claims to…
Why Isn’t Big Cat Rescue Rescuing More Big Cats? In 2023 We Have Great News About Why We Aren’t Rescuing More Captive Born Cats! This page was last updated in 2015, so I’ll preserve most if it for history’s sake below, but here is where we are in 2023. The Big Cat Public Safety Act…
WHAT IS ZAA? and WHY SHOULD ZAA ROADSIDE ZOOS NOT BE EXEMPT FROM LAWS BANNING PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF BIG CATS? 2021 UPDATE RE ZAA POSITION ON THE BIG CAT PUBLIC SAFETY ACT: When the Big Cat Public Safety Act was first introduced a few of the roughly 60 ZAA zoos, most notably “Doc” Antle’s operation…
Joe Exotic and Jeff Lowe’s GW Zoo is closed forever by Big Cat Rescue.
Oklahoma Judgments On June 1, 2020 the federal court in Oklahoma issued a judgment against an entity controlled by Jeff Lowe based in part on what the judge described as “willfully failed to comply” with one previous court order and “other failures to obey or respond to the Court’s orders in this case.” The ruling…
See the latest version of this bill at https://bigcatrescue.org/big-cat-act/ Big Cat Act HR 1380 Feb 26, 2019 Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute, Big Cat Rescue, Born Free USA, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund and and the Performing Animal Welfare Society are celebrating…
2018 Outreach Department Annual Report Education In this fast developing world, every day brings new innovations in the way we communicate and connect. Online resources and apps allowed Big Cat Rescue to reach more students across the country and the globe in 2018, increasing our number of distance learning programs. We participated in phone and…