The St. Augustine Wild Reserve will provide you and your family with the rare opportunity to see wild animals up close. This is an outstanding, one-day educational experience that I highly recommend.
This facility houses more than 50 large mammals ranging from tigers, lions and leopards to bears, hyenas, ligers and wolves. There also are more than 30 smaller mammal species, including coatimundis, white-tailed deer and various barnyard animals such as geese, turkeys, hens and chickens.
The St. Augustine Wild Reserve is a nonprofit created as a rescue center for unwanted exotic animals. Many folks obtain an exotic pet, only to realize that the animal’s wild nature does not fit into their life or their household, as they expected. This is where the reserve comes in. The reserve takes in unwanted exotic animals as an alternative to euthanasia. Some of the reserve’s animals came from abusive homes. Two wolves were rescued when their owner was involved in a fatal auto accident.
You will be given a guided tour of the seven-acre compound by an experienced wildlife professional. An introduction to each species, basic biology and how the animal arrived at the sanctuary will be discussed. You will be allowed to get within 3 to 10 feet of the exotic animals, which are housed in secure habitats.
The reserve does not allow public contact with the animals. On the tour, you will meet amazing white tigers, orange tigers, a very rare golden tabby tiger, and even a rare Ti-liger, lions, liger, servals, lynxes, a bear, leopards, jaguars, hyenas and a host of wolves ranging in color from black to white This tour of the St. Augustine Wild Reserve is truly an experience of a lifetime.
The reserve’s address is St. Augustine Wild Reserve, 5190 Farm Creek Road, St. Augustine, Florida 32920. For information, call 904-940-0664.
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