Stop Circus Suffering

ADI partners with Citizens Looking for Animal Welfare Solutions (CLAWS) to encourage locals to stay away from the Beja Shrine Circus.

ADI urges Nashville residents to boycott the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

ADI asks West Palm Beach residents not to attend the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Leading elephant experts and campaigners assembled for the Summit for Elephants which had a special emphasis on circus elephants. The setting for the three day conference was the Ark 2000 sanctuary of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS).

Representatives of the Oakland Zoo, Detroit Zoo, ARK2000, and Active Environments outlined the steps that were being made to improve the lives of captive elephants – whether in zoos or sanctuaries.

Beaten, chained, passed from one owner to the next: the sad lives of Boo and Krissy – the elephants the USDA left behind.