Wisconsin Roadside Zoo Sued for Violating the Endangered Species Act and State Law

Animal Legal Defense Fund
February 12, 2020


MADISON, WI. -- Tanya and Teagan are endangered tigers who are kept in small cages at the Special Memories Zoo, where witnesses have observed algae in their cages' water tanks, food infested with maggots, and the straw used for bedding left soiled and unchanged for months on end.
The mistreated tigers are among the 200-plus animals at the center of the Animal Legal Defense Fund's lawsuit against the roadside zoo in Greenville, Wisconsin.

Today, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the nation's preeminent legal advocacy organization for animals, filed a lawsuit against Special Memories Zoo for keeping the tigers and other animals in squalid conditions that violate the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as well as state laws protecting captive wild animals.

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Visitors have observed other sick and injured animals held in cramped, filthy cages without access to clean water.
Ring-tailed lemurs have been observed without sufficient food or psychological enrichment.
Endangered gray wolves are forced to live in small, muddy enclosures.
Black leopards, lions, Canada lynx, Japanese macaques, and other animals suffer in similarly inhumane and illegal conditions.


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https://aldf.org/article/wisconsin-roadside-zoo-sued-for-violating-the-endangered-species-act-and-state-law/




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