CHIPLEY, Fla. — Time has run out for a wolf sanctuary in Chipley.<\/p>\n
Seacrest Wolf Preserve is weeks away from shutting down.<\/p>\n
The preserve is a popular destination with tourists and school kids who get to interact with the wolves.<\/p>\n
The non-profit group that runs it lost a court battle over liability insurance.<\/p>\n
The sanctuary now has just 20 days to relocate its animals.<\/p>\n
Court documents show the eviction centers around lease requirements for liability and business interruption insurance.<\/p>\n
Landowner Leon Decook argued the preserve failed to secure the $1 million dollar liability policy outlined in the agreement, along with a $500,000 business interruption coverage for the 62-acre property.<\/p>\n
The court agreed.<\/p>\n
In the court documents, Seacrest Wolf Preserve defended its actions referencing another preserve operation in Central Florida which said it was never required to carry liability insurance.<\/p>\n
That other preserve also claimed a $1 million dollar policy was not available for injuries caused by wolves.<\/p>\n
In a Facebook post, the organization said, “We lost. The landowner has won, and we have until March 15th to vacate the property these animals have called home for years. Without a miracle, this is the end.”<\/p>\n
Neither the preserve nor the landowners responded to our emails or our phone calls for comments.<\/p>\n
The Preserve’s current focus is on securing placement for as many animals as possible before the March 15th deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHIPLEY, Fla. — Time has run out for a wolf sanctuary in Chipley. Seacrest Wolf Preserve is weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-489844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}