Animals in Entertainment

Bollywood beauty Jiah Khan stars in a brand-new ad for PETA to spread the word that animals suffer in captivity.

Carlsberg Group, announced that the company has now pulled its sponsorship of the Polo Cup, a much-criticised elephant polo match to be held in Jaipur, India, this weekend.

Project Nim – the must-see documentary of the year by director James Marsh – details the attempts of scientists to teach a chimpanzee (Nim Chimpsky) sign language.

I hope you’re as excited as I am to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which opens next Friday, 12 August. The movie’s message and CGI special effects are so animal-friendly that PETA US has given director Rupert Wyatt a Proggy Award for recognising that real great apes don’t belong on production sets. […]

PETA US members converged on the Hollywood premiere of the new movie Zookeeper to remember Tweet, a giraffe who collapsed and died on set during the movie’s production.

At least 41 people suffered injuries during Pamplona’s San Fermin festival this year.

Carrefour, the second largest worldwide distributor of bullfight tickets, has made the compassionate decision to drop sales of tickets to bullfighting events in France.

PETA’s Proggy Awards (“Proggy” is for “progress”) recognise animal-friendly achievements in commerce and culture.

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

After years of campaigning, demonstrations and online advocacies by animal rights groups across Spain, Europe and other countries worldwide – Catalonia voted to ban bullfighting in the entire region.