A chat with the founder of Big Cat Rescue | Carole Baskin - S.O.S. Podcast #18

Join me as I chat with the one and only Carole Baskin! I am so excited to bring her honorable work to my podcast audience!!!

Carole Baskin is the founder and CEO of Big Cat Rescue. She runs a real estate business and manages 100+ volunteers and interns from around the world and 10 staff and contractors. She has run this Tampa based nonprofit since 1992 and has garnered international attention to the plight of captive big cats on CNN, Animal Planet, Discovery, U.S. News & World Report, People Magazine, The Today Show, Sports Illustrated, Netflix, Wondery, all of the local media outlets and many more national and international programs. She is the host of the Cat Chat Show, a live interview with cat experts from around the world.

Carole has lectured in Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, and many cities across the U.S. on legislative affairs, and sanctuary standards in Universities, Law Colleges (including Stetson, Texas Lutheran University,  the University of Miami), and in numerous animal association conferences. Her efforts, combined with many others of like mind, have resulted in the 2003 passage of the Captive Wild Animal Safety Act which made it illegal to sell a big cat across state lines as a pet, the 2009 requirement that those in Florida who possess Class I animals must post a $10,000 bond and the reclassification of a cougar to Class I, making it illegal to own as a pet in FL.

Carole is so outspoken that her enemies, the people who breed big cats and exploit the cubs in pay-to-play schemes, have repeatedly threatened her life and one of them is in jail serving a 22-year sentence after being convicted on two counts of murder for hire.

More about Carole's work and Big Cat Rescue - https://bigcatrescue.org/carole.baskin/

How the Netflix documentary Tiger King used disinformation to slam a reputable nonprofit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBivH...

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