In one case portrayed in the film,В Hanna appears onВ an ABC program with two snow leopards who he said were 8 weeks old.В ButВ records showed those cubs were only 5 weeks old,В which violatesВ industry standards for public contact with cubs, animal protection attorney Carney Anne Nasser explains in the film. 'And one of those explanations is that it was killed.' 'When you have animals that are listed in the film that we can't find, and they won't tell you where they are, there's any number of explanations for it,' Webber said. Those facilities often offload an animal when it gets older andВ there is no longer financial incentive to keep it, Webber said, and the animals often become difficult to track down. 'What that means is those people will use those cats for pay-to-play interactions,' film director Michael Webber told The Dispatch.В 'They will take them and use them as high school mascots, they will take them for cub petting activities, and basically exploit these animals to make a buck for as long as they can.' Such facilities 'will absorb animals from anyone' and are engaged in for-profit activities with animals, she said. Unlike animal sanctuaries and accredited zoos, those facilities don't serve a legitimate animal conservation purpose, said Carney Anne Nasser, an animal protection attorney featured in the documentary. In many cases, the conservationists acquired these young animals from unregulated, unaccredited вЂњroadside zoosвЂќ or вЂњbackyard breeders,вЂќ not true animal sanctuaries or accredited zoos, the documentary shows.В After the television appearances, the animals often went back to the same kinds of facilities, or couldnвЂ™t be traced at all.Д«ig Cats: Big cat documentary 'The Conservation Game' features Jack Hanna in its first trailer The documentary, which includes footage from as far back as 2010 and as recently asВ 2018,В follows animal advocate and former Ohio police officer Tim Harrison and a team of others as they search for what became of the exotic cats that once sat in the laps ofВ celebrity conservationists -В including Hanna - on morning andВ late-nightВ shows on national television. 'The Conservation Game,' Jack Hanna and allegations around unaccredited animal facilities The film also suggests Hanna and Columbus Zoo officials stonewalled attempts to pass federalВ big cat regulations, while other Ohio zoos and animal advocates expressed support for the proposed law. The filmmakers say longtime Columbus Zoo director Hanna and other celebrity animal conservationists actively misrepresentedВ where the exotic cats came from and where they were going, insinuating they were moving between accredited facilities that adhere to strict animal care standards and ethics policies. Jack Hanna: Columbus Zoo drops some animal vendors after Jack Hanna's inclusion in 'The Conservation Game' documentary Instead, 'The Conservation Game' film says,В they were shuffled among backyard breeders and unaccredited roadside zoos, facilities described as 'prisons' for animals. The baby tigers and snow leopards that sat in Jack Hanna's lap on late-night talk shows often didn't come from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and didn't end up there when the cameras stopped rolling, a new documentary alleges.

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