The January 2017 complaint accused the safari in Gentry of 68 violations from 2012 to 2016. The Animal Welfare Act regulates the treatment of animals in research and exhibition. The department subsequently suspended the 400-acre safari’s Animal Welfare Act license for 60 days beginning Jan. 1, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Charles Wilmoth, the safari’s animal and park manager, said the safari passed those examinations but it remains closed to complete additional maintenance work, primarily to roads inside the park. It’s the longest the safari has been closed since it opened to the public in the early 1970s, according to Hook.

Source: National Post March 11, 2019 18:11 UTC