Garden Bros Circus will be in West Palm Beach, Florida from July 22-24. Join us in peacefully educating the public about circus cruelty!

Exact demo times will be posted closer to the date. If you are able to protest the first show at 4:30pm on Friday, please let us know.

ARFF will also have a protest on Saturday. Please join their event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1566018190370749/

Posters and leaflets will be provided. Please dress appropriately according to the weather. Bring water and stay hydrated.

The animals need your voice! For more information on circus cruelty, please visit: www.circusprotest.com.

For questions or concerns, please email ashleyf@cwint.org.

We are thrilled to be the official charity partner of the Wickham Festival, a music and arts festival taking place from 4th – 7th August near Fareham in Hampshire. The four day festival has been rated by The Guardian as one of its Top 8 Boutique and Family Friendly Festivals. So get yourself down there!

A host of renowned artists will be taking to the stage, including The Stranglers, Tony Hadley, Lindisfarne, The Trevor Horn Band feat Lol Crème, Chas and Dave and Hayseed Dixie – as well as League President, Bill Oddie!

We are delighted to be able to offer discounted tickets to League supporters – so what are you waiting for? Get your ticket today!

Come and visit us a the Sanctuary Tent, where you can get away from it all, relax and recharge your batteries between watching your favourite bands. With lots of comfy seating, the Sanctuary is the ultimate escape from a busy schedule of music and performances.

You can even Tweet from our giant bird’s nest! Charge your phone up at our free charging point and then upload your best nest selfie!

You can also find out more about the League’s tireless work to defend, protect and provide a safe haven for wildlife.

Perhaps climb aboard the Bird Bus, listen to wildlife talks and get your face painted like an animal. And if you are happy to get your hands dirty, why not help build a giant model wildlife sanctuary? Grab your ticket today and we’ll see you there!

Full Page Ad Exposing "Hug-a-Pig" For What It Is - Bullying!

Today we have a full page ad in the Tomah Journal exposing its readership to the reality of the upcoming "Hug-a-Pig" event.

https://sites.google.com/a/allanimals.org/nopigwrestling/full-page-ad

They call it hugging. It is bullying! If you haven't yet written to the Monroe County Ag Society, you can get their addresses here. http://www.tomahtractorpull.com/index.php/contact-us

Polar bear selfies: bear confined to tiny artificial enclosure in Grandview Aquarium mall

Even with the ice caps melting and as few as 22,000 polar bears left in the wild, the saddest one of them all may live in Guangzhou, China, where tourists and mall-goers come by to take photographs of the lonely male bear.

Polar bears in the wild require massive amounts of space to walk, run and climb, as well as to hunt and forage for food. Confined to a small enclosure with bright-blue walls to suggest a poor attempt at replicating the look of his natural habitat, this polar bear’s life is nowhere near what it should be. The only constant he can rely on is the rapping noise on the walls of his glass jail cell, from people eager to take his picture. Welfare group Animals Asia has been pursuing a shutdown of the Grandview Aquarium in Guangzhou’s Grandview shopping center, which also houses six young beluga whales, five walrus calves, a wolf and Arctic foxes.

Bowmanville Zoo Uses Fear and Intimidation to Train Animals

Two eyewitnesses reported seeing a woman at the Bowmanville Zoo, who appeared to be a zoo employee, aim and shoot a BB gun at a giraffe seven times. Evidence obtained during PETA's exposé of the zoo includes footage of an employee describing the BB gun as a "tool" to make animals "behave" and do things they don't want to do. The frightened animals react to the sight and sound of the gun. They fear the gun only because they know from experience that it can hurt them.

A debate discussing a ban on snares has been tabled in the UK Parliament for this Thursday (21st July). We need you to contact your MP encouraging them to attend this debate.

Snares are thin wire nooses designed to trap ‘predator’ species. The nature of their design means that – despite supposedly being used as a restraining device – they cause severe injuries to animals caught in them.

These injuries include limb amputation, strangulation and often a slow agonising death. Due to the indiscriminate nature of snares it is not just foxes that are caught, but also badgers, otters, hares, deer and even domestic pets such as cats and dogs.

The more MPs that attend and speak out against the barbaric use of snares, the more likely it is that the Government will be forced to act.

You can take action by writing to your MP, letting them know your concerns about snaring, and asking them to attend the debate.

It only takes a few moments, so please take action now, for the sake of all the countless animals who fall victim to snares. Click here to contact your MP

THIS is circus training.

Throughout China, circuses, traveling shows, and roadside zoos force animals—including bears, monkeys, tigers, lions, dogs, and others—to perform for the public. A PETA Asia investigator visited 10 different circuses and animal training facilities in the city of Suzhou, which alone encompasses more than 300 circuses, and documented animal abuse and suffering on a massive scale.

PETA Asia's investigator documented that bear cubs are chained or tethered to a wall and forced to stand on their hind legs, sometimes for hours. If they can't hold themselves up, they risk choking and hanging themselves.

This bear's snout was pierced with a metal ring, which was used to lead her around.
One monkey, named Xiaohau by the investigator, was dragged around by a rope around her neck, causing her to struggle frantically and try to escape.
THESE ANIMALS NEED YOUR HELP. Any circus that uses animals inevitably subjects them to terrifying and cruel training methods as well as barren, cramped living conditions. U.S.-based circuses like Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, UniverSoul Circus, Jordan World Circus, and others continue to exploit animals. Training sessions take place behind closed doors and are not regulated by a protective entity. Jordan World Circus—one of the largest producers of Shrine Circuses in the country—even uses bears, just like the Chinese circuses that PETA Asia investigated. Please click here to learn more about the investigation and pledge never to buy a ticket to any circus that uses animals.

Animals in the Circus Hit, Bullied, Chained, and Deprived

In 2015, an eyewitness visited Suzhou, China, which encompasses more than 300 circuses, to go inside 10 different circuses and animal training facilities. What they documented there was horrifying.

Cat Busters post photos of dead cats to Facebook warning pet owners to keep cats indoors

A Facebook group in Australia, Cat Busters, is making its message clear to cat owners: keep your precious pets indoors or they may end up dead.

The group claims its cat killing practices are justified because feral cats disrupt biodiversity by killing native species of reptiles, birds, and mammals, a claim the local RSPCA concedes is true.

To combat the cat problem, Cat Busters issued a letter to pet owners warning that if they don’t take the responsibility of keeping their cats housebound, their pets may end up trapped, and/or dead. Cat Busters has taken it upon themselves to set up cat traps around their neighborhoods.

For those who don’t heed their warnings, they’ve begun posting photos of their kills to show they’re not kidding around.

Thailand: Free Chained and Caged Monkeys Forced to Perform Tricks for Tourists!

Target: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, and Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservationmore - 73,656 SUPPORTERS of the 75,000 GOAL

Visitors to the Chiang Mai Monkey Centre in Thailand have reported a heartbreaking scene. Monkeys tethered by metal collars and chain leashes are forced to perform tricks such as riding bicycles, playing basketball, and doing push-ups to entertain tourists. When they are not performing, the monkeys are chained to trees or cages where they cannot move more than one or two feet.

Reviewers on TripAdvisor have written that the "monkeys aren't happy" and described the Centre as "horrific." Visitors have stated that they "felt ashamed to take photos" and "could hardly watch" the abusive treatment. YouTube footage from 2015 shows a fearful monkey on a chain riding a bicycle in circles.

According to the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT), most animals used in Thai tourism have been kidnapped from their families in the wild. They are now dependent upon their human handlers and perform out of terror.

The WFFT commented to The Dodo, "[The animals] are malnourished and imprisoned as slaves for their short span of useful life, then killed or abandoned to make way for the next money making animal."

Please join me in urging the government of Thailand to shut down the abusive Chiang Mai Monkey Centre and send the animals to an accredited sanctuary. These intelligent, sensitive animals are suffering and scared – they desperately need you to speak up for them IMMEDIATELY! Please sign and share this petition right away!