Since the 1970s, scores have been hurt or killed by circus animals. After decades of advocacy efforts, Ringling Bros. retired all of its elephants in 2016 before going on hiatus the following year.

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

Saving the Lions 13:15. For 25 years, Jan Creamer and Tim Phillips have made it their mission to stop animal abuse in circuses. They caused a furor in their native England when they released video ...

Animal rights activists claimed a major victory Sunday after Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus said it would halt its show in May after 146 years.. The move came as circuses and animal ...

Circuses and Animal Rights . The animal rights position is that animals have a right to be free of human use and exploitation. In a vegan world, animals would interact with humans when and if they ...

But the animal welfare activists’ biggest win to date would prove temporary: When Ringling bought more circuses in 1929, he kept their cage acts and eventually brought them back to the Big Show ...

What’s more, backers of the bill say, the Trump administration’s zeal for cost-cutting could work in their favor. Circuses with animals are subject to federal inspection under the Animal ...

When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed down in May 2017, a victim of changing tastes and years of protests by animal-rights groups, The Greatest Show on Earth seemed like the ...

Circuses with wild animals are strictly regulated by a licensing scheme, introduced in 2012, that sees them inspected by vets six times a year (twice unannounced) with the results available online.

Marley, a seven-year-old grizzly bear who was rescued from a roadside zoo in Georgia, is living at the The Wild Animal Sanctuary. Marley was photographed on December 3, 2014. Bam Bam, along with ...

A semi-truck hauling circus animals erupted in flames on an Indiana highway early Saturday morning — setting free camels, zebras and a horse to run wild along the pavement.

Some circuses claim they train wild animals without abuse, using food and positive reinforcement. But Creamer and Phillips insist beatings are routine because performing tricks is unnatural for ...