The Wild Animal Sanctuary

Animal care - The Sanctuary successfully cared for more than 750 lions, tigers, bears, wolves and other large carnivores in 2022. The organization feeds more than 100,000 pounds of fresh, high quality, species-specific food each week and utilized 85 staff and more than 150 volunteers to care for these animals. The Sanctuary also successfully rehabilitated more than 200 animals to help transition them into its large acreage free roaming habitats.

Animal rescue - The Sanctuary has remained highly active in rescuing large carnivores throughout The united states and from many other countries around The world. 100 lions, tigers, bears, wolves and other animals were rescued from illegal or abusive situations in 2022. The Sanctuary operates a fleet of specialized rescue equipment and highly trained staff to rescue animals that were suffering or facing death on a daily basis.

Public education - The Sanctuary operated an on-site public education program for more than 130,000 people in The denver metro area, nationally and internationally in 2022, and was able to reach another 450,000 households through dedicated mailings of its quarterly newsletter. More than 10 school field trips and 20 adult education outings were accomplished in 2022. In addition, Sanctuary speaker's bureau presented to nearly 26 different civic organizations or other events via zoom internet video presentations throughout The year. The Sanctuary's social media education campaigns were able to reach more than 20 million people and its multiple web sites reached over 80,000 unique visitors per month during 2022.

Animal Sanctuary and public education on captive wildlife.