Click here for a form that will tell you how to contact your Senator or Representative so you can express your support for your neighborhood zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, and tell them what you think of California activists sneaking into our state's legislature to try to shut us down. Click here for an advocacy link to the NAIA Trust for the protection of animals. This is an easy way to include appropriate text in your letter by clicking on the paragraphs they already have prepared.

See the documentary film "Animal Righteousness: The Terror of Animal Rights"

News Flash! It was only a matter of time. Animal Rights groups are betraying their "friends" at Asheboro zoo by pirating the controversial film footage from the documentary "Animal Righteousness" to use in their own propaganda against zoos. Publicizing Asheboro Zoo as "unsafe", they are also negotiating with NCAZS to purchase additional footage containing scenes of 9 more "unsafe" zoo exhibits than were seen in the film. These scenes were not included in the television length documentary for reasons of time. An ill-advised alliance with one of the world's more notorious AR groups appears to have backfired. The State Zoo may soon find itself having to rebuild itself from the ground up, to AR specifications.

NCAZS Mission Statement
The North Carolina Association of Zoos and Sanctuaries represents the independent zoo and wildlife professionals in the state of North Carolina. Our mission is to defend the rights of properly qualified working citizens, businesses and corporations to responsibly own, exhibit and rescue exotic animals, and to do business in the zoo and wildlife industry according to our state's right to work law.

SB 1032: Basic Background
In 2006, under the appointment of the North Carolina General Assembly, a study committee began to debate new legislation to regulate "inherently dangerous exotic animals" in North Carolina. So why did it all go wrong?

"Animal Protectors" who are hurting animals
Captive breeding may be the last hope for the survival of some of our planet's most critically endangered species. Why do people who say they want to protect animals want them to become extinct?

No More Neighborhood Zoos?
Clean, well run USDA regulated neighborhood zoos and nature centers make significant contributions to their local communities, providing public education as well as economic growth. Animal rights activists want to shut them all down.

No More Rights to Keep Any Animals?
Make no mistake, the ultimate agenda of these animal rights activists is to ban all human interactions with animals, including the keeping of pets, zoos, circuses, farming, fishing, hunting and meat eating.

The secret identity of the "Ani-Scammers"
API is openly anti-zoo, and their ultimate agenda is to shut down all zoos and end the captivity of all animals. So why did Lorraine Smith, Curator of Mammals at the Asheboro Zoo, invite API's lawyer into our state to sit (and vote) on a legislative advisory committee? It certainly looks like she's been "ani-scammed".

How The Scammers Operate
Called "the greatest scam of the 21st Century", the animal protection racket is the hottest thing going in the easy money game. "Ani-scamming" (animal scamming) is a fast, profitable ticket to success with almost no outlay of expenses. This is how they operate.

Animal Scamming: The Difference Between Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
Animal welfare and animal rights are two different things. Animal welfare is a legitimate concern for the health, safety and well being of animals. Animal rights is a big money business as well as a quasi-religion. Find out more about where the money is going. It isn't being used to help animals.

The Vegetarian Agenda
Vegetarianism is an individual choice and should be respected. Unfortunately some extremists respect neither truth nor the law in their attempts to subvert both to their own ends. Nor do they respect the rights of other states to pass their own laws based on what their constituents actually want.

Environmental Terrorists: Learn their secrets
Escaped lions and tigers and minks, oh my! Animal scammers stop at nothing including criminal acts to gain publicity for their cause. Escaped wild animals offer such good publicity for activists that they are not above manufacturing some of these incidents themselves.

Their Real Goals (and the lies they tell to steal your tax dollars)
Make no mistake about the agenda of the animal rights activists. They want to ban hunting, fishing, farming, meat eating and the keeping of pets. Are these California extremists the people we want to have writing our laws in North Carolina?

An Animal Scammer's Greatest Fear: Real facts and statistics
Attacks by domestic animals are far more common than incidents involving wild animals. The real facts and figures don't support their arguments.

Why Don't Scammers Like The Facts?
Read the results of a sixteen year survey of captive wildlife related injuries and fatalities in this state and judge for yourself what the real danger is.

What Asheboro Zoo Doesn't Want You to Know
The State's largest zoological park is not the zoo with the best track record for keeping captive animals alive, nor the zoo with the safest caging. Nor do they come anywhere near being self-supporting with visitor revenues. Our tax dollars support them. Yet they are asking for a government granted coercive monopoly on the entire zoo and wildlife industry in this state, closing down all other zoos and wildlife facilities including rescue sanctuaries.

What's the danger, really?
Human fatality due to attack by big cats, venomous and constricting reptiles and crocodilians in the USA: a 16 year survey

Public Comments for the Study Committee for Senate Bill 1032
The independent zoo and wildlife professionals of North Carolina have plenty of facts and figures to show why SB1032 is a bad idea for both the humans and the animals in our state.

What is the HSUS (Humane Society of the United States)?
It's not what you think. Despite the words “humane society” on its letterhead, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not affiliated in any way with your local animal shelter, nor do they help or rescue animals.

An assessment of the economic impact on North Carolina commerce
$464 million in yearly revenue to the state. And that's a conservative estimate.

Frequently Asked Questions about SB1032
SB1032 was introduced by an extremist animal rights group from California (API) that opposes nearly all human contact with animals.