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News Release For Immediate Release March 1, 2013 Free “Art With An Altitude” Kite Festival at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge March 23 KaleidoKites Sponsors Wildlife Refuge Event to Display Art in the Air to Benefit Big Cats (Eureka Springs, AR) – March 1, 2013 – Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge (TCWR) hosts it’s 23rd annual […]

March 3, 2013 View Article

Acres Magazine

LIONS, TIGERS, BEARS and a BOOMER TRACTOR!

February 25, 2013 View Article

Jack Hanna article

‘Jungle Jack’ Hanna helps out Turpentine Creek Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Carroll County News   EUREKA SPRINGS — Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge Board of Director members Bill Plummer and Eric Studer recently visited “Jungle Jack” Hanna, director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo, for input on their initiative to relocate more than 30 big cats to the […]

February 19, 2013 View Article

Turpentine Creek in midst of enormous big-cat rescue effort

Turpentine Creek in midst of enormous big-cat rescue effort Monday, November 19, 2012 By Kristal Kuykendall, Carroll County News EUREKA SPRINGS — Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge is in the midst of undertaking the largest animal rescue effort in its 20-year history. The USDA-licensed refuge, located 7 miles south of Eureka Springs, has been asked by […]

December 14, 2012 View Article

RTS Rescue Full

34 Big Cats Need You Today Turpentine Creek has been asked by the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office to help them peacefully orchestrate the relocation of 34 big cats to Turpentine Creek or other reputable facilities. TCWR staff has moved 6 tigers to date and needs Help placing 26 of the 34 big cats currently residing […]

November 9, 2012 View Article

Lions, Tigers and Bears looks back on 20

Lions, Tigers and Bears looks back on 20 Submitted by The City Wire Staff on Wed, 04/18/2012 – 6:57am story by Erin Robertson, special to The City Wire photos courtesy of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge EUREKA SPRINGS — Hercules the tiger was named for the muscular macho-man of Greek mythology. Rescued from a Texas home […]

April 18, 2012 View Article

20th Anniversary Radio Spot

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April 18, 2012 View Article

Lions, Tigers, Bears, and Cougars.

Saturday, June 21, 2008 Lions, Tigers, Bears, and Cougars. Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge is taking on rescued wild animals and putting them where they belong — in a world where they’re free to feel the grass under their feet. Imagine life in a 400 square foot apartment. You can’t leave, you can only have select […]

March 28, 2012 View Article

Big cats leaving Ohio for new home

Big cats leaving Ohio for new home By Alan Johnson The Columbus DispatchFriday March 23, 2012 7:48 AM Nikita and Tasha are leaving Ohio because of a proposed state law regulating ownership of exotic animals. Nikita, a 7-year-old white Bengal tiger, and Tasha, an 11-year-old cougar, are moving to the Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minn., […]

March 23, 2012 View Article

Rasha and Nia

New Turpentine Creek Family Members – Rasha and Nia Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge staff members picked up two cougars about an hour south of St. Louis, Missouri, on March 29. This was at least the second place Nia and Rasha called home. The current owners got the two cougars from a couple of guys who […]

March 9, 2012 View Article