Big Cat Rescue

Big Cat Rescue is a rescue group that specializes in rescue felines that are not domestic house cats. The group was founded by Carole Baskin in the 90s, who still runs it to this day. Their YouTube account was created in August 2006.
== History ==
The mission of Big Cat Rescue is to provide the best home they can for the cats in their care, end abuse of big cats in captivity, and prevent extinction of big cats in the wild.
Carole Baskin founded the company in the 1990s, with her first husband, Don Lewis. Following Don's disappearance and being pronounced legally dead in 2002, Carole took over as the CEO of the group. Howard, Carol's current husband, also became a CEO at the company.
Big Cat Rescue is a member of the International Tiger Coalition, Florida Association of the Restoration of Ethics, a member of the Tampa Chamber of Commerce, the Upper Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce, The Tampabay Visitors and Convention Bureau, and many other animal welfare groups.
Big Cat Rescue assists other accredited sanctuaries by helping them build cages, train their volunteers and they lend their people and resources to help them recover from natural and man made disasters. Big Cat Rescue is licensed by and in good standing with FWC, USFWS, USDA and is registered with the state of Florida as a charity.
== YouTube Channel History ==
Most of the videos contain fundraisers that focus on each feline, and most of the videos have the image of the animals shown in the video. The majority of the videos do not have closed captions, and the community tab is blank.
The channel links are links to other related channels, and there is a descriptive about page. There is a channel banner that mentions the ending of illegal animal trading, and there are ways to donate to them which are verified.
== Carole Baskin ==
Carole Baskin is the founder and CEO of Big Cat Rescue, the world’s most influential, accredited rescue facility for exotic cats. She and her family volunteer for Big Cat Rescue as unpaid staff and have 100+ volunteers and a dozen interns from around the world. She has successfully rehabbed and released a number of bobcats and other native animals.
Big Cat Rescue is accredited by The Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries, and Carole Baskin served as a past President of, The Association of Sanctuaries (a national accrediting body that later folded into GFAS and is to sanctuaries what the American Zoological Association is to zoos.
She previously served on the board of the Humane USA PAC and had been the legislative liaison to the Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition, and was responsible for representing The Association of Sanctuaries at their meetings. She supplies CWAPC with all of the current data on exotic cat issues, including the numbers being displaced, the maulings, escapes and killings of both the public and the cats involved. She scans the media daily for news regarding exotic cats and reports to some 300 people of three different groups with the daily headlines.
In 2005 she was appointed by Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair as a member of the Animal Advisory Committee to assist Animal Services in their service to the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners and was unanimously elected as Chairperson the following year.
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