Sara Edwards, Author at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge

Predator and Protector

Tomorrow, May 11th, is Mother’s Day. Many of the species we have here at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge are some […]

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge is currently home to 8 species of felines (as well as 4 types of feline hybrids). […]

Naturalists and conservationists play a crucial role in protecting the world’s most elusive and endangered species, and tigers are no […]

History Spyke was a melanistic (black) leopard born to Santania and Zambo who were rescued in 2008 from a private […]

Here at Turpentine Creek, our animals eat A LOT. We run through about 600 pounds of meat a day here! […]

Today, we’ll be focusing on servals – an incredible cat that not everyone may have heard of but faces many […]

Lions are an intriguing and mesmerizing species. Being the only social wild cat species in the world, lions live in […]

If you’ve been out to Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, the first thing you’ll see is our gift shop building. We […]

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge has been rescuing animals for over 30 years, and during that time, more than 400 amazing […]

If you know about Turpentine Creek, then you are likely familiar with our cats and bears. But did you know […]