Circuses

A draft bill was tabled in Parliament to stop circuses using animals beginning in 2015 – a move that all British people can celebrate.

Morrissey lent the spotlight at his recent Boston, Massachusetts, gig to help get the word out about elephants suffering in a circus act.

Despite having been instructed by Parliament in 2011 to get wild animals out of circuses, David Cameron has been heel-dragging and stalling on implementing a ban.

PETA has been working hard to get the government to introduce a complete ban on wild animals in circuses.

Many of the women on FHM’s Sexiest Women in the World 2012 list have something else than being sexy in common – they show compassion towards animals.

PETA has issued a statement with several other animal protection groups announcing they won’t participate in Defra’s shamefully biased consultation on the use of wild animals in circuses.

Public and parliamentary supporting the ban, Defra has announced it will press ahead with its circus inspection and licensing scheme and also have another public consultation on the issue.

The town of Molins de Rei has joined more than 60 other Spanish cities that have enacted bans against circuses that use animals.

On a week that marks both Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday and World Animal Day, take a moment to reflect on words of wisdom from the “Great Soul”.

Cricketer Wayne Parnell has set his sights on a new opponent: circuses that force wild animals to perform unnatural and painful tricks.