Big Cat Rescue Corp

Advocacy - the organization educates the public about big cat issues in captivity and in the wild and advocates for legislation through its website that received an estimated 335,000 views during the year and through emails sent no less than monthly that go to over 6,000 recipients. Our youtube channel bigcattv.com has over 1.3 million subscribers and our videos there have received over 600 million cumulative views. We had over 4.2 million facebook followers at year end, over 300,000 followers on x, and over 170,000 on instagram. Our most significant advocacy accomplishment was the passage of the federal big cat public safety act into law on december 20, 2022 after over a decade of our leading the effort to get it passed. The bill ends the abusive cub petting and phases out private ownership of big cats by those who are not usda licensed exhibitors. We believe this will end 90% of the abuse of big cats held in captivity in this country. Since then we have worked actively with us fish & wildlife service on enforcement of the law. In 2024 we worked on a ballot initiative in colorado to end the more abusive kinds of hunting of cougars, bobcats, and lynx. Unfortunately, it did not pass.

In-situ grants - grants ranging in size from 5,000 to 20,800 were made to 14 in situ conservation projects spanning 12 countries.