Category: Ringling

Ringling agrees to pull elephants from performing by 2018, but why wait so long?

Students learn about what happens to elephants behind the scenes in circuses.

Aching feet are a serious matter for elephants forced to travel with and perform for Ringling.

Ringling Bros. circus gets quite a shock when PETA live-tweets a performance in order to help put the spotlight on animal abuse.

Are the days of jamming animals in boxcars and cages finally coming to an end?

PETA’s Captive Animal Law Enforcement division has been very busy, tackling Ringling, SeaWorld, and some really awful roadside zoos.

The Los Angeles City Council sends a strong message to elephant abusers, leaving circuses scrambling and elefriends celebrating.

When Ringling invited a camera crew to its “Center for Elephant Conservation” in a bid to convince people that the animals aren’t abused, the plan backfired.

Police are investigating the shooting of an elephant used by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The incident reportedly occurred outside the Bancorp South Arena in Tupelo, Mississippi, early on the morning of April 9. Knowing Ringling’s shady history when it comes to animals (some years ago, a trainer traveling with Ringling shot a … Read more »

Less than a year after a security guard reported the abuse of a chained elephant by a bullhook-wielding Ringling Bros. circus handler in Colorado, an employee at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum—a venue where PETA captured Ringling bullhook use on video as part of a 2009 undercover investigation—has reported more bullhook abuse during Ringling’s March 2013 tour there.   PETA’s … Read more »