Following a yearlong investigation sparked by a PETA complaint, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services filed a lawsuit on October 2 against Dade City’s Wild Things (DCWT)—a notorious roadside zoo that subjects young tigers to swimming events and other forced public …
Utah seized control of the trust in 2005, but church loyalists have mostly refused to comply with court orders concerning land-use issues. According to the lawsuit, Pipkin and Cooke secured a lease from the court-appointed trust managers for commercial development on the zoo property and had legal rights to access the grounds. But in October 2015, Pipkin and Chatwin found the zoo had been …
Two lions at the Cricket Hollow Zoo were transferred this week to a wild sanctuary in Colorado as the result of a lawsuit settlement between an animal rights group and the Manchester zoo owners. The Animal Legal Defense Fund of California said in a news release Wednesday the two lions, Jonwah, 16, and Njjara, 18, were transferred on Monday to …