Breeding Programs
The park is involved in the International SSPs for Asian elephants, cheetahs, white rhinos, and cinereous vultures. It has provided captive bred barn owls, burrowing owls, trumpeter swans, ferruginous hawks and a bald eagle to reintroduction programs for release into the wild.
The park currently claims to have the most successful Asian Elephant breeding program in North America, and in 2008 became home to the first third generation Asian Elephant in North America. It has received several CAZA awards, including those recognizing outstanding achievements in the care of both cheetahs and giraffes.
In 2010 "Jake" became African Lion Safari's first successful Asian elephant birth from an artificial insemination, and the first birth of this kind in Canada.
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