Every now and again I learn of a formal move to make the lives of animals better, and none could be more needed and timely than a new pending bill that is geared to ban wild animals in traveling ...

Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian import and America’s most profitable circus, is animal-free but full of animalized human performers. Courtesy: Cirque du Soleil In 1917, the publication of a posthumous ...

EVANSVILLE — An Evansville Animal Care & Control inspection Wednesday offered one answer, at least, to persistent questions and controversy about the use of animals at the Hadi Shrine Circus. Two ...

Apr. 4—KINGSTON — Silvie Pomicter, President of Voice of the Animals, Tuesday said that animals forced to perform in circuses aren't trained to do confusing, uncomfortable, and even frightening tricks ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 1,000 acrobats, clowns and other circus employees marched through downtown Mexico City on Tuesday to protest a new ban on animals in circuses. China warns US 'must never ...

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed a bill making Washington the twelfth state in the country to restrict the use of animals in traveling circuses, exhibits and other shows. Washington State ...

Many circuses today are responding to the public’s distaste for the use of wild animals in circuses by choosing to eliminate wild animal acts completely, while others, including Ringling Bros. and ...

truly may be the greatest show on Earth. This year’s production, “Varekai,” actually sent shivers up my spine at one slack-jawed point. We walked out into the late-afternoon sunlight dazed with ...

Animal Welfare Act violations by various circuses. I could talk about how Ringling Bros. alone has had five animals in their care die of unnatural causes within two years.

Such animals might be a bit more scarce in Douglas County after commissioners passed a ban this week on circuses that include such so-called exotic animals from staging events in unincorporated areas.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s “circus wars” are heating up, with a growing movement to ban circus animals meeting rising anger from circus workers. There have been messages posted on social networking ...