Wildlife sanctuary, neighbours in rift over potentially housing large exotic animals near Parry Sound, Ont.

Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary took in African lions for 6 months last year after rescue from Quebec zoo

RCI  / Kate Rutherford (new window) · CBC News

To hear lions roar in the woods of Ontario’s Muskoka cottage country is unusual, but that’s what happened last summer, and it’s caused a division between former friends and acquaintances over whether that should ever happen again.

Some residents near the Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Rosseau, south of Parry Sound, said they want the sanctuary to concentrate on native wildlife after temporarily housing seven African lions last summer.

But the sanctuary’s executive director, Linda Glimps, said that if asked, she wouldn’t rule out accepting lions in the future….

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