Black Pine Animal Sanctuary

Various educational visitor and outreach programs are offered, including guided sanctuary tours, school field trips, and special events.

The sanctuary is licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a Class "C" exhibitor, is incorporated (as of 2000) as Professional Animal Retirement Center (PARC), Inc. and is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

The earliest educational programming offered was to local preschools and primary schools who took field trips to see the animals and learn about them.

In 2003, the sanctuary reorganized and began operating under Professional Animal Retirement Center (PARC), Inc., a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit corporation.

Residents include donkeys, pot-belly pigs, rheas, emus, fallow deer, macaques, spider monkeys, kinkajous, coatimundi, cotton-top tamarins, alligator, tortoises, snakes, lizards, tigers, leopards, cougars, bobcats, servals, foxes, wolves, black bears, macaws, cockatoos, and more.