Animals in Entertainment

Weymouth’s Sea Life aquarium launched an appeal to its visitors asking them not to eat octopuses because they are “as intelligent as the average pet dog”.

PETA appealed to the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) President Michel Platini asking him to ban the ritual slaughter of animals in European football.

A senior zookeeper at Bristol Zoo has allegedly lashed out violently and punched a fur seal, simply because the animal put a flipper on a set of scales.

Mali has spent 35 years at the Manila Zoo, where she endures intense confinement, boredom, loneliness and isolation in an area fraction of the size of her natural habitat.

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.