Exotic animals in Culiacán's Ostok Sanctuary are evacuated amid cartel violence. Staff face threats and government inaction ...

Organized crime and violence in the Mexican state of Sinaloa has forced a local sanctuary to close and transfer at least 700 ...

Over 700 exotic animals were evacuated from Sinaloa’s Ostok Sanctuary due to cartel violence, one of the largest animal ...

A pack of veterinarians clamber over hefty metal crates of animals they load one-by-one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.

The Dog Whisperer is back in Culiacán, Sinaloa after more than three decades with a mission: to relocate over 700 animals in ...

Cartel fighting regularly blocks staff off from reaching the sanctuary, and some animals have gone days without ... to find a specialist to treat her in Mexico, the United States and beyond.

CULIACAN, Mexico -- A pack of veterinarians clambered ... Cartel fighting regularly blocked staff off from reaching the sanctuary, and some animals went days without eating. Many have started ...

AP correspondent Megan Janetsky explains how lions, tigers, elephants and other animals are being “rescued” from a so-called sanctuary caught in Mexico’s cartel war zone. (Credit: The Associated Press ...

Cartel fighting regularly blocks staff off from reaching the sanctuary, and some animals have gone days without ... to find a specialist to treat her in Mexico, the United States and beyond.

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP ... violence and leaving the leaders of the Ostok Sanctuary reeling from armed attacks, constant death threats and a cutoff from essential supplies needed to keep their 700 ...

An animal sanctuary in northern Mexico has been forced to move their 700 animals as violence from criminal warfare has seeped into daily life. Among the cargo: tigers, monkeys, and elephants – all ...