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Well done Queensland! Gold Coast council joins circus animal ban
Gold Coast council joins circus animal.
The Gold Coast City Council has joined RSPCA Queensland's campaign to ban circuses using exotic animals from operating on council land.
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Source: Brisbane Times
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Bolivia first country in the world to ban wild and domestic animals from travelling circuses
Animal Defenders International (ADI) is delighted that Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has signed a new law to end the use of wild and domestic animals in travelling circuses.
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Source: Animal Defenders website
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PETA exposes Ringling Bros Cruelty
Thanks to PETA's ongoing campaign against documented appalling abuse of elephants in Ringling Bros Circus - 'the saddest show on earth' as PETA rightly calls it - the largest circus in the US has been compelled to answer charges for routinely beating elephants with bullhooks. (PETA has videotaped lame elephants limping out of Ringling's train cars.)
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Ipswich City Council Bans Circuses with Exotic Animals
Local councillor Paul Tully said the council had voted 6:5 to support a ban, making Ipswich the first council in Queensland to outlaw circuses with exotic animals.
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Source: Animals Australia
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Lismore Council cracks the whip on circuses
Lismore City Council will send a clear message that cruelty to animals will not be tolerated in the shire after they voted 6/3 to ban animal circuses from Council-owned land.
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Source: The Northern Rivers Echo
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Circus elephant in the middle of jumbo row
A jumbo-sized dispute has broken out over the living conditions of New Zealand's only circus elephant.
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Source: stuff.co.nz
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Driver dies as bus hits escaped circus elephant
A BUS has crashed into an escaped circus elephant on a highway in Mexico, killing both the vehicle's driver and the unfortunate animal.
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Source: news.com.au
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60 Minutes - The Sanctuary
They're remarkable creatures. Social, intelligent, at times, very human. And just like humans, elephants experience many complex emotions. Which makes our heartless treatment of these beautiful animals all the more confounding. Hunting them to extinction, forcing them to perform in circuses, locking them up in zoos.
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Source: 60 Minutes
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Protestors urge city council to ban circus
AN animal welfare group have urged Derry City Council to consider banning animal circuses from performing in the city.
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Source: Londonderry Sentinel
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Auckland City Council applauded for Rodeo Ban
Rodeos are no longer welcome in New Zealand’s largest city.
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Source: Animal Circuses
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Music Video made about Topsy the Elephant who was purposely electrocuted to death
Award winning Australian animator makes a music video about the tragic story of Topsy The Circus Elephant who was deliberately electrocuted in 1903.
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Source: email
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Elephant, camels freed with Jaws of Life
What animals have to endure for our entertainment: Three circus animals had to be rescued by volunteer firefighters after the transport truck carrying them overturned.
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Source: CTV.ca
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Circus Lawsuit Moves Forward
Animal activists have a new reason to complain about how the circus treats its elephants and other animals. A federal judge says the animal groups can now move forward with a blockbuster lawsuit. Click here to hear an interview
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Source: George Knapp, Chief Investigative Reporter
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ADI: Peru set to lead South America with animal circus ban
A year after launching a devastating exposé of the treatment of animals in circuses in South America, Animal Defenders International (ADI) stands on the brink of securing legislation to end this shocking abuse in Peru and Bolivia.
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Source: Politics.co.uk
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Stardust Circus Trainer killed by elephant
Forensic evidence shows that Arna the Circus Elephant crushed a worker to death.
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Source: news.com.au (Daily Telegraph)
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Cork City Council against Animal Circuses
Cork City Council passes a motion to BAN animal act circuses from using council land
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Source: Animal Rights Action Network (www.aran.ie)
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ARNA and Gigi to be retired to Western Plains Zoo
Arna and Gigi are leaving Stardust Circus and living out the rest of their lives in peace at Taronga Western Plains Zoo.
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Source: www.zoo.nsw.gov.au (Taronga Zoo)
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