ANIMAL CRUELTY at Southwest “Wildlife Conservation Center” in Arizona
The Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center (SWCC), which claims to be an animal sanctuary, is in fact one of the smallest zoos in the world. It houses hundreds of wild, non-desert animals on only 5 acres of land in the extreme heat of Arizona in cages that provide minimal or no shade. The contradictions of SWCC’s claims with the actualities are startling. While the SWCC claims to be a conservation center, is a for profit zoo according to their own official application records with the Game and Fish department. Not only is SWCC a zoo, the owner Linda Searle keeps over 300 wild animals on 5 acres of land in her backyard on a residential tract of land in the Sonoran desert. To maintain their image as a conservation center and amass large donations, the SWCC does treat injured wild animals, however they do not release healthy animals back into the wild as wildlife conservations are supposed to do. Instead they keep the animals permanently enclosed on their tiny tract of land to c...