G W Exotic Rescues 15 White Tigers From Dying Economy

    WYNNEWOOD, OK, January 07, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The G.W. Exotic Animal Park located in Wynnewood Oklahoma is feeling the pressure of the dying economy in more ways than one. Not only is the amount of donations declining by the day, but the amount of animals needing to come in to the G. W. Exotic Animal Park is rising. The latest rescue of seven white tigers and 2 tabby tigers brings the total number of Tigers to 187 on the G.W. Exotic Animal Park facility.

Just in the last months the economy has shut down 4 facilities and has many more on the brink of extinction, leaving hundreds of animals left in the cold. The G.W. Exotic Animal Park is closed to accepting any more large cats at this time until funds can be raised to build more compounds to house large cats. In fact, the G.W. Exotic Animal Park is giving other facilities and private owners FREE meat in order to keep their cats well fed long enough to allow them to be moved to the GW Exotic Animal Park facility.

The "Text to Save a Tiger" program has been initiated in order to raise enough donations to bring in more of the exotics needing to be re-homed. "It is very easy." said Satrina, the office manager of G.W. "All you have to do is text "GWPARK" to 85944 and respond with yes when you get a confirmation text back, and this will donate $10.00 to the fundraising efforts which is simply billed to your phone bill."

Satrina goes on to state, "We hope to get the word out over the next month to receive our goal of 8000 texts in order to bring in the 23 more tigers and 60 primates that are on the waiting list to come in. This will allow our staff to buy the material we need with them doing the labor for free to construct the compounds."

With the dying economy supporters that use to donate large sums of money can no longer support zoos and animals the way they would like, so, the GW Exotic Animal Park is hoping to get the numbers back up with many more small donations rather than a few large ones.
Many people believe that tigers in the wild are going to be the answer to save the species but, it is a sad fact that they are still being poached and their numbers are declining by the day. "It is very important that the healthy captive big cats are saved and allowed to be cared for to stop the species from extinction, and the fast changing laws by the States are forcing people that do take good care of their animals, to send them to zoos and sanctuaries." says Joe Schreibvogel, director of the G.W. Exotic and President of the United States Zoological Association. There just is not enough room for all the animals that are being forced out do to changing laws and the bad economy, "he states". Without a little help from alot of people the animals are going to be the ones to loose.

The G.W. Exotic Animal Park is located between Dallas and Oklahoma City on I-35 and exit 64. The park is open 365 days a year and you can stop and visit all the animals the park has taken in and make a donation in person or by using the text code "GWPARK" to 85944.

The G.W. Exotic Animal Park is a not for profit 501-c-3-org, for more information visit us at www.gwpark.org

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