The UK government is expected to make an announcement about the fate of wild animals used in travelling circuses soon, and these animals desperately need our help to ensure nothing short of a complete ban is implemented.
Recent sickening undercover footage captured by Animal Defenders International showed Annie the elephant as she was beaten and abused while shackled in Bobby Roberts Super Circus. This followed the exposé of the Great British Circus, where elephants were chained for 11 hours every day and were beaten, jabbed with hooks and hit with pitchforks.
For up to nine months of the year, wild animals in circuses in the UK are forced to live in temporary accommodations. For lions and tigers, this means spending most of their time in small cages on the backs of trucks. Animals like camels and zebras are kept in small pens or on short tethers.
Wild animals should have been banned from circuses a year ago after the results of a Defra consultation in which 94 per cent of respondents were in favour of a complete ban. We now have a real opportunity to finally end the use of lions, tigers, elephants and other animals in circuses in Britain.
Please take immediate action for animals by urging the government to introduce a full and permanent ban to end the misery of animals in circuses for good.
