The Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation in California was in hot water with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) again—this time, for allowing employees at a local juvenile detention facility to hold and take photographs with a 5-month-old snow leopard. After PETA reported the incident to the USDA, it cited the roadside zoo, noting that … Read more »
In a surprising move and after many pleas from North Carolina residents, the Charlotte City Council voted down a bullhook ban and instead banned wild-animal acts altogether. This victory follows years of public advocacy and vigorous grassroots action—which PETA assisted by alerting locals to take action and providing comments arguing in favor of a ban … Read more »
Oswald’s Bear Ranch in Michigan was ordered to pay a $2,400 penalty to settle a U.S. Department of Agriculture lawsuit stemming from a tip from PETA that the roadside zoo’s owners had lied to the agency about the circumstances surrounding a bear cub’s death. Two cubs escaped from Oswald’s during a power outage, and one cub named … Read more »
After hearing from PETA about the suffering that reindeer endure in holiday displays, Camp Abbot Trading Co., a hardware store in Oregon, has banned all events with live reindeer and any other animals! Reindeer travel up to 1,000 miles during their annual migration, traversing the tundra and swimming across rivers. But in holiday displays, they’re … Read more »
When PETA received footage from activists showing tiger exhibitor Adam Burck—whose license to exhibit animals had been canceled only weeks earlier by the USDA—illegally performing with tigers at the Hadi Shrine Circus in Indiana on Thanksgiving night, we rushed a complaint to Evansville Animal Care & Control. By 9 a.m. Friday, Burck had been sent … Read more »
Just days after PETA wrote to the North Dakota attorney general reporting that SeaQuest CEO Vince Covino’s bid to open a cruel operation in a former Grand Forks department store was based on lies, Covino backed out of his plans to add this North Dakota location to his chain of petting zoo aquariums. No animals … Read more »
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) finally canceled Adam Burck’s license! After PETA discovered that the Jordan World Circus tiger exhibitor had moved to Oklahoma without alerting the agency—and didn’t have a facility to house tigers—we repeatedly urged it to investigate and terminate his license. When the USDA finally conducted an inspection, it found Burck … Read more »
Following five years of pressure from PETA and after hearing from hundreds of thousands of our supporters, travel giant Expedia has stopped selling tickets to SeaWorld and cruel “swim with dolphins” encounters! This is a victory for all the dolphins who are forced to perform meaningless tricks and are harassed by humans who touch and … Read more »
After PETA spotted disgraced animal exhibitor Lance Ramos Kollman exhibiting animals at an influencer’s party, we called for agencies to crack down. After hearing from us, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission cited Kollman’s partner, circus exhibitor Jennifer Walker Caudill, for importing animals to Florida and possessing a spider monkey without the proper permits.
PETA won another victory in our successful federal Endangered Species Act lawsuit against Tri-State Zoological Park and its associates: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted our motion to be awarded attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in conjunction with Tri-State’s appeal, which it lost earlier this year. The court’s order included the … Read more »
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) filed a formal complaint—which could result in fines and license suspension or revocation—against Oswald’s Bear Ranch over an incident in which two bear cubs escaped from their enclosures, leading to one of them being shot and killed, among other concerns. The roadside zoo’s owner, Dean Oswald, provided false information … Read more »
PETA—along with The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado—rescued a North American black bear named Dolly and three foxes who were being held at Sunrise Side Nature Trail and Exotic Park, a defunct roadside zoo in Michigan that had denied animals adequate veterinary care for at least 18 months. The rescue followed federal authorities’ confiscation of … Read more »
After more than a decade of campaigning—which included an eyewitness investigation, a news conference featuring Alan Cumming, parallel campaigns against chimpanzee-exploiting greeting-card companies Hallmark and American Greetings, and a years-long Endangered Species Act lawsuit—we rescued every remaining chimpanzee from the former Missouri Primate Foundation breeding facility. For decades, this had been the primary source of … Read more »
After hearing from PETA about the egregious cruelty and threat to public safety inherent in all animal circuses—and specifically, Loomis Bros. Circus—the Elberton County Fairgrounds in Georgia prohibited the notorious circus from forcing animals to perform during its shows from June 25 to 27. Brian Franzen—who frequently supplies animals for Loomis Bros.’ elephant and big-cat … Read more »
