Every now and again I learn of a formal move to make the lives of animals better, and none could be more needed and timely than a new pending bill that is geared to ban wild animals in traveling ...

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When Marc Ayers attended the Sangamon County Fair in New Berlin last year, he was on a mission to stop one attraction from returning to the state: the Banana Derby. Ayers, the Illinois state director ...

Actor and animal advocate Pamela Anderson landed in London this week, and at the top of her agenda was posting an urgent letter to Prime Minister Theresa May calling on her to bring forward ...

The smell of sawdust and popcorn fills the air. The clowns, acrobats and magicians are all in place. As the audience are guided to their seats inside the big top, all the classic elements of the ...

Meet Viola whose life is a circus, literally. She escaped from the big top in Butte, Montana during her bath after a truck backfired and scared her. According to the Today Show Instagram page, Viola's ...

The Circus Animal Rights Coalition is calling on the authorities not to allow Circo Fantasy to perform in Malta. The coalition includes a number of animal welfare organisations who united to express ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 1,000 acrobats, clowns and other circus employees marched through downtown Mexico City on Tuesday to protest a new ban on animals in circuses. China warns US 'must never ...

truly may be the greatest show on Earth. This year’s production, “Varekai,” actually sent shivers up my spine at one slack-jawed point. We walked out into the late-afternoon sunlight dazed with ...

Such animals might be a bit more scarce in Douglas County after commissioners passed a ban this week on circuses that include such so-called exotic animals from staging events in unincorporated areas.