ST. LOUIS (AP) — A circus violated an animal welfare law by allowing three elephants to briefly get loose in Missouri and watering them too close to a Pennsylvania show’s public area where a child ...
Every now and again I learn of a formal move to make the lives of animals better, and none could be more needed and timely than a new pending bill that is geared to ban wild animals in traveling ...
Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed a bill making Washington the twelfth state in the country to restrict the use of animals in traveling circuses, exhibits and other shows. Washington State ...
The Washington State legislature has effectively banned circuses, with animals, from performing statewide under Senate Bill 5065. It’s long overdue, especially since some circuses have already stopped ...
On January 1, Massachusetts officially prohibited elephants, lions, tigers, primates, giraffes, and bears from being used in ...
Elephants were once a staple of circuses, with the most iconic traveling show, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, having built its industry around the spectacle of the giant mammals in 1881. It ...
OAKLAND (BCN)—Two days before the Ringling Brothers Circus begins a series of shows in Oakland, two City Council members and animal rights activists said today that they’re glad the circus has decided ...