The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is accepting public comments through February 17, 2022 on the following Endangered Species Act permit applications: 1) Lee Simmons Wildlife Park is seeking a permit to export three cheetahs to a zoo in Japan; 2) the Toledo Zoo is seeking a permit to export ten ring-tailed lemurs to a zoo in Australia; 3) a trophy hunter from Missouri is seeking to import two oryx carcasses from a canned hunt in Mexico; 4) Cherokee Exotic Adventures, a canned hunting ranch in Texas, is seeking captive bred wildlife registration to breed and trade in red lechwe, along with a separate permit to allow them to be killed onsite, over a period of five years; 5) an individual in the Las Vegas area is seeking captive-bred wildlife registration to breed and trade in Madagascar radiated tortoises over a period of five years; 6) Topeka Zoo is seeking a permit to export a Sumatran tiger to a zoo in New Zealand; 7) Virginia Safari Park, a roadside zoo in Virginia, is seeking a permit to import two captive Andean condors from Peru; 8) an individual from California is seeking a permit to import specimens collected from northern tiger cats and Geoffrey’s cats, small wild cats, from Brazil over the next five years; 9) an individual from Ohio is seeking captive-bred wildlife registration to breed and trade in Madagascar radiated tortoises over a period of five years; 10) Capron Park Zoo in Massachusetts is seeking captive-bred wildlife registration to breed and trade in lions, ring-tailed lemurs, red ruffed lemurs, black-and-white lemurs, Japanese cranes, bush-tailed rat-kangaroos, and Rodrigues fruit bats over the next five years; and 11) the University of Florida seeks a permit to export and re-import specimens of endangered species from its collection over the next five years. The standard for permit issuance is a demonstration that the applicant’s proposed purpose enhances the propagation or survival of the species in the wild.
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