The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana ordered Tim Stark and Wildlife in Need (WIN) to pay PETA fees and costs totaling $733,997.70 in relation to our victory under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Because Stark and WIN already owed us $19,234.40 in unpaid fee awards, we’ll be seeking to recover $753,232.10. … Read more »
PETA played an integral role in a major victory when the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seized 69 protected big cats from Lauren and Jeff Lowe, operators of Tiger King Park in Thackerville, Oklahoma, named after the Netflix docuseries that made the Lowes (and their exploitation of tigers) infamous. The DOJ’s search and seizure warrant … Read more »
Bearadise Ranch in Myakka City, Florida, carts bears from fair to fair in cramped transport cages and forces them to balance on ladders, pull hoops over their heads, and perform other demeaning tricks. But after hearing from PETA following a past performance by Bearadise, Florida’s Rattlesnake Festival has agreed to leave all wild animals out … Read more »
The governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, signed the Traveling Animal Protection Act, which bans the use of elephants, big cats, bears, and other animals in circuses and other traveling shows in the state. This bill ended dangerous animal exhibits at the Colorado Renaissance Festival, including elephant and camel rides and exotic-cat shows. To help secure … Read more »
After PETA alerted the Animal Protection Unit in Norfolk, Virginia, that Garden Bros. Circus had scheduled last-minute performances at Old Dominion University’s Chartway Arena, the city denied the circus a traveling animal exhibit permit, prohibiting it from using any animals.
The governor of Colorado signed the Traveling Animal Protection Act (SB 21-135) into law, which bans the use of elephants, big cats, bears, and other animals in circuses and other traveling shows in the state. PETA supplied detailed information on traveling animal exhibitors to the animal-friendly advocacy group Colorado Voters for Animals, the determined local … Read more »
After PETA alerted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to goats seen hobbling on the grounds of Zootastic Park in Troutman, North Carolina, the agency cited the roadside zoo for failing to notice several other animals in the same condition, noting that the neglect could have caused “increased periods of pain and suffering.”
After learning of magician Jay Owenhouse’s absurd plans to cage three tigers in a parking lot near a busy airport on the South Las Vegas Strip for six months, more than 100,000 PETA supporters urged Triple Five not to allow the cruel acts on its property and called on Owenhouse to make tigers disappear from … Read more »
After PETA tipped off the U.S. Department of Agriculture to an illegal tiger display by Lisa Lopez—who operates under the name All Things Wild and had no federal license to exhibit animals—at a Trinity Valley Expositions fairgrounds flea market in Liberty, Texas, the agency issued her a citation and ordered an end to the display.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of PETA’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) challenging the agency’s decision to license the Miami Seaquarium after it was sold in 2014. PETA will return to court to argue that the USDA unlawfully licensed Palace Entertainment when it … Read more »
Following a complaint from PETA, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission cited Monica Welde, owner of Bearadise Ranch and the notorious traveling show Welde’s Big Bear Show, for violating state wildlife laws by allowing a news crew to enter an enclosure with a 300-pound bear. The crew was allowed to interact with and feed … Read more »
Following a complaint from PETA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited backyard animal exploiter Larry Wallach for multiple violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. We notified the agency of Wallach’s Facebook videos showing him electroshocking a juvenile tiger named Sheba, keeping her in a run-down enclosure, and handling her in a harmful and inhumane … Read more »
Just days after ExxonMobil announced an end to its decades-long $250,000-per-year sponsorship of Alaska’s deadly Iditarod dogsled race, Craft Sportswear wasted no time in rejecting cruelty to dogs by pulling the plug on its only days-old sponsorship and, after hearing from more than 58,000 PETA supporters, Medical Park Family Care in Anchorage confirmed that it’s … Read more »
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was granted a preliminary injunction in its litigation against Jeff Lowe, his wife, and two businesses associated with the Lowes. The United States was then permitted to promptly transfer all tigers, lions, and tiger/lion hybrids who are 1 year old or younger, along with their mothers, from the Lowes … Read more »
For years, Grant Kemmerer frequently provided talk shows with bears, primates, big cats, and other wild animals and allowed prohibited direct contact between the animals and members of the public, including Robert and Bindi Irwin, Jimmy Fallon, George Stephanopoulos, and Wendy Williams. However, after PETA alerted New York authorities to these violations, they denied Kemmerer’s … Read more »
