Why Are These Bears Living in a Concrete Pit?

An ailing bear waits for help in vain in a Tennessee tourist trap.

44 Celebrities to Ringling: Retire All Exotic Animals NOW

Three years is too long for Ringling’s elephants to go on suffering, and the circus isn’t retiring its other animals at all. See the petition that 44 celebrities have signed.

PETA Sends Flowers to Hunter

When a hunter was mauled by a grizzly bear, we decided to send him flowers and ask him to stop hunting for good.

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Days-Old Tiger Cub Used as Fair Prop

A tiger cub is being forced to work the fair circuit instead of nursing from his mother.

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Tregembo Zoo Is Tremendously Awful

A bear is left to suffer from a painful and likely blinding eye condition at North Carolina’s Tregembo Animal Park.

Why Are Zoos Sentencing Elephants to Solitary Confinement?

Lonely elephants, insane bears, and dejected dogs receive help from PETA.

From Barely Living to Living Like Bears

Two bears go from a pitiful pen to a spacious sanctuary.

PETA Honors Misty Upham’s Legacy

Acclaimed actor and animal advocate Misty Upham is gone too soon.

PETA Calls Out USDA Over Lame Elephants, Insane Bears, and Dead Birds

Can the feds be publicly shamed into taking action for animals?

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Mexican Circus Fined for Mutilated Animals

Authorities just fined Harley Circus approximately $53,000 for featuring a bear whose lower jaw had been removed and a lion and three spider monkeys who were declawed and defanged.

Chief Saunooke Bears: Life After Rescue

One year after being rescued from a decrepit roadside zoo, see how the bears are doing now.

Update: Where Is This Cub’s Mother? (Video and Photos)

Conditions at the Cherokee Bear Zoo remain unimaginably grim.

Happily Ever After for Boudreaux the Bear

A bear goes from spending years inside a tiny, dark cell at a zoo to a sanctuary with sunshine and fresh air.

Ohio’s Exotics Owners Lose in Court—Enforcement Must Follow

After exotic-animal exploiters lose a two-year court battle, Ohio law enforcement must take decisive action to enforce the law.

Video: Rescued Bear Nurtures Her Newborns at Sanctuary

If PETA hadn’t freed Ursula before she gave birth, her cubs would have been torn away again. Watch her get to nurture her babies for the first time.

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