TIM STARK ZOO LICENSE

The judge revoked Wildlife in Need’s federal license and fined the facility $300,000 and Stark $40,000 in civil penalties. Stark’s many crimes caught up to him in February 2020, when a USDA administrative judge ruled that Stark had 'willfully violated” the Animal Welfare Act over 120 times between January 2012 through January 2016. When the WHAS11 team asked Stark if he could show them the paperwork that proved he’d rehabilitated and released “thousands and thousands” of animals like he claimed, he said, “No.

This is because, the workers alleged, most of the animals were killed, not set free. On top of that, Stark kept no paperwork on which animals were brought in or when they were supposedly released. Additionally, employees alleged that Stark mistreated animals who were sick, including an incident during which he beat a leopard cub to death with a baseball bat. They also claimed there weren’t enough staff members to properly tend to the animals, and that the only vet on staff regularly botched procedures, causing animals to die. Workers alleged that animals were often parched, starved, and kept in inadequate cages. animals that go there, they suffer a very terrible life.' But former volunteer Carly Brigaman claimed that the zoo “is not what it claims to be. Per WHAS11, Wildlife in Need was founded in 1999 as a non-profit claiming to rescue and rehabilitate indigenous wildlife. As Joe Exotic continues to try to appeal his prison conviction, another controversial zoo owner takes center stage in Tiger King 2: animal breeder Tim Stark, who owned Wildlife in Need in Charlestown, Indiana and later attempted to open a failed zoo with Jeff Lowe.

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