Stop Circus Suffering

The Welsh Government is currently consulting on proposals to “improve the welfare of animals in mobile animal exhibits” including circuses. Please join ADI today in responding to this important consultation that could very well decide the fate of a circus ban in Wales.

Animal Defenders International (ADI) has renewed its call for the UK government to bring in its long-promised ban on wild animals in circuses without delay after a tiger owned by British big cat trainer Alexander Lacey was shot dead by police in the United States yesterday.

The Governor of Illinois has signed into law a ban on the use of elephants in circuses and other traveling exhibitions, effective January 1, 2018

Keep up the momentum with New York state bills, following landmark wild animal act ban!

Following the demise of Ringling Brothers Circus, upon failing to adapt to changing attitudes and falling ticket sales, big cat trainer Alexander Lacey plans to return to Europe and present his outdated act there.

On 23 May 2017, a special forum titled “Circuses without wild animals in Colombia: creation and challenges of Law 1638 of 2013” was held at Javeriana University in Bogota.