Ringling Bros. Circus hauls elephants and other animals from city to city chained inside reeking railroad boxcars, but its truck caravans (Ringling has three separate shows) also travel tens of thousands of miles every year shipping caged tigers, birds, and other animals. A staffer with one of the circus’s units—which travels 30,000 miles annually—admitted that … Read more »
FaceMePLS/cc by 2.0 Finally—a measure of justice for Tina and Jewel. The U.S. District Court in Beaumont, Texas, has slapped Cole Bros. Circus with a $150,000 fine and four years of probation for illegally selling the two elephants to former employee Wilbur Davenport in violation of the Endangered Species Act. The court also handed Cole Bros. owner … Read more »
… to sunny California. Not content with campaigning to get an ailing elephant named Lucy out of Edmonton’s Valley Zoo, the tireless Bob Barker is now speaking out on behalf of Toka, Iringa, and Thika, the three elephants at the Toronto Zoo. Bob joins Toronto City Councilor Shelley Carroll, who is calling for the elephant … Read more »
Talk about quick action: Less than 24 hours after PETA contacted Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum to explain how Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus hurts animals, the museum had dismantled its newly installed Ringling exhibit. What’s more, a museum spokesperson stated that such an exhibit would not be displayed again! Good on them—or, as … Read more »
You’ve probably never heard of elephant polo, and now that Guinness World Records has agreed to stop documenting records for wins in elephant polo matches, perhaps you never will again. The publishing giant made the move after learning from PETA U.K. that captive elephants forced to perform in such matches in India and Thailand are … Read more »
ViNull/CC by 2.0 One zoo employee has been killed and another maimed in incidents at two separate zoos on the same day. At Riverside Discovery Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, a chimpanzee bit a worker on the hand, severing two of her fingers and injuring a third. At the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee, elephant handler Stephanie … Read more »
After nine grueling years, an elephant named Mariappan is finally free of the chains that bound him by all four legs so tightly that he could not take a single step in any direction. Mariappan was chained inside a filthy, dark shed at the Arulmigu Mariamman Temple in Samayapuram, India, until a local activist, with the … Read more »
Whether you believe in karma or payback, in 2010 we saw that for every action there is a reaction. We’ve rounded up the top six “Payback Is Hell” stories of 2010. It’s safe to say that animals are just as tired of cruelty to animals as we are. A bull decided that he no longer … Read more »
gribbley/CC by 2.0 Not convinced that one can make a difference? When University of Florida (UF) student—and former PETA intern—Jared Misner found out that the school’s alumni association was offering discounted tickets to the hideously cruel Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, he met with the leaders of the group. After Jared let the alumni … Read more »
PETA appreciates its friends in the media, but some websites seem to be looking to stir up controversy. (Shocker, right?) Case in point: PETA sent a friendly letter to Nicole Richie after learning that her father had rented an elephant as a “surprise” for her wedding this weekend to Joel Madden. We asked her to … Read more »
“For over 100 years, the Shriners have sponsored this World Famous event with proceeds going to a great cause—helping less fortunate children in your community.” That quote was lifted from the Shrine Circus website. But a Shriner in Fort Worth, Texas, was determined to let Animal Connection Texas members who were protesting the Moslah Shrine … Read more »
Tony Gonzalez of the Atlanta Falcons has been called “the greatest tight end of all time,” but it’s his efforts for animals that wow us. Indeed, he’s sweeter than a Georgia peach. Tony’s latest move? He’s urged the Fulton County Board of Commissioners to vote for a proposal, introduced by Commissioner Robb Pitts, to ban … Read more »
For years we’ve asked Los Angeles Zoo officials to follow the lead of more than a dozen progressive U.S. zoos and close down its elephant display for good. Despite overwhelming public outcry over the cruelty and the cost to taxpayers involved in keeping elephants in captivity, the zoo has pushed full speed ahead to build … Read more »
