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Archive for September, 2013

Stop public contact with big cats, bears and primates

Posted in News on September 24th, 2013 No Comments »

This month at Dade City’s Wild Things, for a fee of $200, guests can swim with a white tiger cub named “Remington.” Born in June, in a few weeks the tiger will be too large to safely (or legally) come into contact with the public. The State of Florida and the U.S. Department of Agriculture […]

Point-by-point response to the Florida Park Service

Posted in News on September 6th, 2013 No Comments »

In ARFF’s Summer newsletter we asked readers to send letters to the Florida Park Service to protest the trapping of wild monkeys living along the Silver River and Oklawaha River in North Central Florida (the trapped monkeys are sold to laboratories). If you wrote, you may have received a response from Florida Park Service Director […]