Stop Circus Suffering

Ahead of the anticipated wild animal circus ban promised by Government, ADI has offered its expertise to help rehome animals currently touring with circuses in Britain.

Award-winning actors Sir Roger Moore KBE, best known as James Bond, and Imelda Staunton OBE, who stars in new Disney film Maleficent, have joined ADI’s Stop Circus Suffering campaign.

Award-winning actors Sir Roger Moore KBE and Imelda Staunton OBE have written to the Queen to urge her to include a commitment to a wild animal circus ban in her speech at the State Opening of Parliament on 4th June.

ADI has called for a ban on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses, on both ethical and welfare grounds, in its detailed response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on the use of wild animals in circuses, which closed yesterday.

United call for circus ban leads to commitment from Prime Minister

We, the undersigned, are concerned that since the Government announced its intention to ban the use of wild animals in circuses in March 2012 and following the publication of the Draft Wild Animals in Circuses Bill last April, little progress appears to have been made to bring this widely supported and long overdue restriction into law.