The big cats would have unlikely survived in the wild due to the lack of "adequate preparation" and their abnadonment was "reckless to the public, community and nature", according to wildlife ...

Carole Baskin's Big Cat Rescue ... "The win-win solution both for our captive cats and the cats in the wild is for us to merge our cat population with the population at another existing accredited ...

A week after that, 20 big cats, including five African servals, four bobcats, four cougars, and two lynxes died from avian flu at the Wild Felid ... or bird droppings. Captive cats in sanctuaries ...

it highlights the broader issues surrounding the captive big cat industry in South Africa,” Miles said. In South Africa, tigers are not found in the wild because they are not native to the region.