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 ...

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 ...

This weekend, Loomis Bros. Circus will be coming to Raleigh—along with endangered elephants and tigers as well as dogs and camels. Circuses that use animals for tricks have been documented for their ...

Jan. 14 marked the end of Ringling Brothers’ 146-year run of animal circuses. This also marked the end of an era and a beginning of public awareness on the training and treatment of circus animals. It ...

ST. LOUIS -- Wild animal shows, like one that will be touring Missouri later this summer, are at the heart of a battle with animal activists who want the shows abolished, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ...

A semi-truck hauling circus animals erupted in flames on an Indiana highway early Saturday morning — setting free camels, zebras and a horse to run wild along the pavement. Troopers scrambled to catch ...