Category: Circuses

PETA demands an investigation after a longtime UniverSoul Circus employee steps forward with reports of animal abuse and bitten-off fingers behind the “big top.”

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.

This video of a chimpanzee who spent nearly half his life in solitary confinement will make your day.

Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King dreamed of the end of injustice. We are helping to fulfill that dream, and you can, too.

The latest citations come on top of a $6,000 civil penalty that Kalmanson paid in 2008 for two tiger escapes that took place while he was traveling with UniverSoul.

The Hawthorn Corporation bears the dubious distinction of being the first exhibitor to have an elephant confiscated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Please never go to any circus that uses animals—and know what steps to take when one is coming to your town.

Hugo Liebel of the notorious Liebel Family Circus planned to rent out long-suffering elephant Nosey for rides at The Blue Water Fest in Port Huron, Michigan. But after the festival’s organizers heard from PETA about the circus’s long history of violations of the Animal Welfare Act, they told Liebel that they had a jumbo-sized problem with … Read more »

PETA has submitted a formal complaint to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for multiple and repeated apparent violations of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) by handlers with the infamous Kelly Miller Circus. In sworn affidavits, numerous witnesses described the handlers physically abusing animals during several stops on the circus’s recent tour—including forcefully whipping zebras … Read more »