The roadside zoo, a long-time PETA target, shut its doors after state officials suspended its wildlife exhibition permit. PETA had worked hard to expose the inadequate conditions at this Virginia hellhole, including filing complaints that prompted numerous citations and an official warning from the USDA. A news story quoted the owner as saying that Bear … Read more »
Following cruelty-to-animals charges resulting from PETA’s exposé of the facility, the zoo (which is the oldest private zoo in North America) announced that it would be closing its doors for good at the end of the season, after nearly 100 years in business. The zoo blamed PETA’s exposé for the drop in attendance that triggered … Read more »
PETA partnered with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to rescue more than a dozen bears who were relinquished to the agency after their keepers failed to comply with Ohio’s tough new exotic-animal ownership laws. The bears were retired to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, where they’ll have acres to roam in a naturalistic environment.
The Tarzan Zerbini Circus wasn’t allowed to bring elephants into Canada to perform in another show that it owns, the Royal Canadian Circus. The circus’s owner, Tarzan Zerbini, needed an Endangered Species Act (ESA) permit to transport the elephants across the border—but its permit was suspended by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) following … Read more »
