Animals in Entertainment

A victory for compassion in Belgium came this week, as the government ratified a law to ban the use of wild animals in circuses.

After a public consultation and messages from thousands of compassionate people, the government announced that it would ban the use of all wild animals in circuses in England by 2015.

Bulls die bloody deaths in Pamplona. At the ‘running of the bulls’, animals are herded staright to the bullfighting arena. Our striking protest highlights the cruelty.

Yesterday, the Dutch Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution against European Union subsidies which prop up the Spanish bullfighting industry.

Every year, in the city of Pamplona in northern Spain, there’s a massacre.

Charo is something of an authority on Spanish culture – so she knows what she’s talking about when she declares that bullfighting does not belong in modern Spain.

All across the country in public spaces – outside shops, at train stations or under bridges – pigeons are dying in pain after becoming trapped in netting designed to deter them.

Blackfish, the new film from Gabriela Cowperthwaite, exposes what lies behind the “entertainment”.

Compassion and common sense won out this week when Leeds University cancelled plans to host a petting zoo on campus.

Nobel Prize-winning novelist joins PETA to speak out against the cruel tradition of bullfighting in Spain.