catskill game farm
By Jessica Porter on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016 - 12:52 pm
When Cathy and Ben Ballone bought the shuttered Catskill Game Farm in 2012, they hoped to breathe new life into the historic former private zoo.
Instead, they have spent four years unsuccessfully seeking millions of dollars from investors to rehabilitate... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 28, 2012 - 11:07 am
Above: A video of Boom Boom the rhino getting some TLC from a keeper at the Out Of Africa Wildlife Park in Camp Verde, Arizona. Filmed in 2010.
One of the now-defunct Catskill Game Farm's most famous animals, Boom Boom the white rhino, died of cancer this... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 4:20 pm
Fans of the TV show "Life After People" would probably enjoy the Catskills. It seems you can't spit in these mountains without hitting an abandoned movie theatre, a decaying bungalow colony, a depopulated resort, or an entire zoo being swallowed up by the... Read more